Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart had been on her sleeve when Mandy had opened that door , and she felt utterly and abjectly humiliated . |
| 2 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 3 | No wonder that the answer to the puzzle was AN EXCLUSIVE SCOOP and that is just what her entry has been for Ann Scudder of Dartford , Kent as she is the one to scoop up this fabulous prize . |
| 4 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 5 | So far her work had been in the surgery . |
| 6 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
| 7 | Her husband had been to all those places shortly before his death . |
| 8 | But his wife , who 's the Mayor of Cirencester , said her husband had been under a lot of pressure recently . |
| 9 | It was empty , as empty as her head had been in Seville when she had allowed herself to fall in love so easily . |
| 10 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 11 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 12 | In angry self-reproach , Louisa saw how much sooner it should have been evident to her that in identifying so completely with his most noble ancestor , her father had been at pains to exclude all thought of his more immediate and darker legacy . |
| 13 | As she grew up , her father had been of no account to her . |
| 14 | Her father had been in bleak despair , and Caroline had been dispatched to a childless relative for the duration of the trauma . |
| 15 | People were cruel , like her father had been before the divorce , like Miss Shaw and Miss Rist were to Miss Malabedeely . |
| 16 | She had tried to curb it , but her tongue had been like acid . |
| 17 | Well then her mother died last Feb. with some awful cancer and her daughter had been beside her when she died and probably learnt then about the secret which must have burdened her poor mother 's life for so many years . |
| 18 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |
| 19 | That stopped Jessamy saying anything for quite some time , because it was a frighteningly accurate description of how her life had been since their break-up . |
| 20 | It was hard to remember what her life had been like before Leo came , but , whatever it had been , it had to have been more peaceful than this . |
| 21 | How dared he surmise her behaviour when he had n't the faintest idea of what her childhood had been like ? |
| 22 | His last sight of her reliquary had been at morning Mass . |
| 23 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |
| 24 | Esther was also offered places at both universities , and chose Cambridge because it offered her a scholarship , and because her brother had been at King 's , and because she heard an owl hoot thrice in the college garden when she retired to her narrow bed after the glass of wine with Flora Piercy . |
| 25 | A customer asked Sarah if her brother had been near Guernica in Spain when bombs were dropped on it from aeroplanes . |
| 26 | Her brother had been in the bathroom , but he was so drugged that he had slumped against the wall and slept in a haze through the remainder of the night . |
| 27 | Her mother had been with her father so little time . |
| 28 | What did she mean , her mother had been on the streets ? |
| 29 | Her mother had been to Falmouth shopping . |
| 30 | One woman , whose son is an epileptic , said her son had been to hospitals in Newcastle , Middlesbrough , Northallerton , Oxford , Sedgewick near Kendal , and Cookridge near Leeds , before Thornton Lodge . |