Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 2 | Apart from a year at Westfield College she has been on the staff of the Department of French at Reading University since 1962 , progressing from Tutorial Assistant to a personal chair as Professor of French . |
| 3 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 4 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 5 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 6 | Of course she had been in love , for years and years , and perhaps , she sometimes wondered , that experience had spoiled her . |
| 7 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 8 | Any conference she 'd been to , everyone wound up in her room long after midnight , playing poker and spouting Bacardi bullshit , wine-bottle wisdom . |
| 9 | There had obviously been something wrong with the Cashman ménage for some time — why else would Cindy Hill have lied about her whereabouts , telling her husband she had been in Wales when she had really been in a London nightclub ? |
| 10 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 11 | One minute she had been on her hands and knees scrubbing and the next she was being wined and dined by the owner of the largest store in town . |
| 12 | She had always believed there would be someone special — for a while she had been under the illusion that that someone was Marcus . |
| 13 | For a while she had been in paradise ; now it was over . |
| 14 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 15 | Abruptly , and with a habit she had been on the way to forgetting he had , Ven Gajdusek cut her off again . |
| 16 | She got a very nice reference from the surgeon she had been with and so is most grateful to me for organising it . |
| 17 | For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ? |
| 18 | She is the same wholehearted trouper she has been through war and peace for three generations . |
| 19 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 20 | In her trip she had been in too small a room — that was all . |
| 21 | ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’ |
| 22 | She had no idea she 'd been in there so long . |
| 23 | The last time she had been to the office she had been confined in a poky little interview room near the editor 's office , but she hoped to avoid that fate this time . |
| 24 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 25 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 26 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 27 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 28 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 29 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 30 | It was the first time she had been into the city since that awful night of the cockfight back in February . |