Example sentences of "and she [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
2 | But Bicker had seen her wandering Glenbrittle , and she had been to the bothy . |
3 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |
4 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
5 | All he had wanted was to slake his own desires , and she had been on hand , a willing and eager victim . |
6 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
7 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |
8 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
9 | She is Dutch , in her late twenties , and she has been in North Africa for one-and-a-half years . |
10 | then one day she rang and asked to come over — and we went to collect her and she 's been with us ever since . |
11 | ‘ And she 's been to the best , ’ Antonio chipped in . |
12 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
13 | ‘ Yeah , and she 's been in a few times since . |
14 | " She was taken ill yesterday , " Mrs. Butler said , " and she 's been in her room ever since . |