Example sentences of "[been] [prep] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 2 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 3 | If it had n't been for her fat friend , she would have overslept . |
| 4 | Sally is 22 and has been with her current boyfriend for three years . |
| 5 | She wanted to know — as I suspect you do — what my relationship had been with her late sister . |
| 6 | For a moment Leith wondered who the dickens he thought she had with her , then she remembered Naylor had been with her last night when Travis had called . |
| 7 | I had a son , and my mother was delighted , as she had been with her own son . |
| 8 | The fact , however , that Britain linked herself to the German economy through the ERM meant that , far from conducting the opposite policies to Germany 's — which it would have been in her real interest to do — she had to follow suit . |
| 9 | She was his servant , whatever she had been in her previous life , and she was ten or more years younger than himself , and what a battered old soldier he was , to be hungering after such a fresh young girl . |
| 10 | Sister Imelda , the only nun in the convent who was good with the needle , had been in her sick bed so a very poor job had been done on taking up the hem . |
| 11 | She was now 15lb ( 7kg ) heavier than she had been in her single days ; she felt tired and run down , and suffered with migraines , abdominal bloating and increasing premenstrual symptoms including irritability , nervous tension , depression , tearfulness , confusion , weight gain , sore breasts and insomnia . |
| 12 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 13 | Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway . |
| 14 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 15 | It had opened the door to closer collaboration in the nuclear field , bringing substantial savings in research and development costs , and enabling Britain to retain and constantly modernize her independent nuclear deterrent in ways that otherwise would have been beyond her economic means . |
| 16 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |
| 17 | ( Miletus , which had led the original 490s revolt , is said by Herodotus to have been at her greatest prosperity then . ) |