Example sentences of "she [verb] not [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her forehead shines whitely above the dark glasses ; she has not been well but the resting home has allowed her to visit us for the afternoon . |
| 2 | ‘ She has not been well and I do n't mind admitting now that we were very worried , ’ he said . |
| 3 | She has not been able to get any type of work since , despite applying for eight jobs a week . |
| 4 | ‘ She 'd not been long in the village . |
| 5 | She 'd not been able to think what to say . |
| 6 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 7 | The Tribunal concluded that S would not have been dismissed if she had not been pregnant . |
| 8 | Meredith delved in her plastic bag and produced a bottle of wine and — because she had not been sure whether her hostess drank — a box of chocolates . |
| 9 | Olwen found this incredibly vulgar — she had not been impressed by the mixture of genuine antiques and large hideous brass objects which gave away Oyston 's boarding-house background . |
| 10 | She had wanted to meet the young man again , but now the opportunity had been afforded her she had not been confident enough to accept it . |
| 11 | She had lost her fear long ago but she had not been close to a man like this for over two years . |
| 12 | To lose her was more than Paul himself could contemplate ; and surely she had not been indifferent to him . |
| 13 | She had not been that way before . |
| 14 | She had not been pleased when it turned out the credit chip he needed to pay her fine was with the rest of his stuff on Plenty . |
| 15 | She had not been pleased to hear that the gentleman was a little the worse for drink ! |
| 16 | Perhaps Piers had been no more than a struggling architect when they had first met , and she had not been content to lead a life of poverty . |
| 17 | ‘ Servants , be obedient to them that are your masters ’ she read in Ephesians 6 — and she had not been obedient . |
| 18 | Susan had nursed him tirelessly , and no one had ever heard her complain ; but she would have been more than human if she had not been thankful that her long and exhausting task had come to an end . |
| 19 | An employer must allow a woman who has complied with the statutory procedures to return to her original job on terms and conditions no less favourable than those which would have applied if she had not been absent . |
| 20 | She had not been absent from her home for long enough to have forgotten her own house smell . |
| 21 | Robbie drew breath to vindicate herself , to tell him that she had not been unfaithful , that so far as she was concerned Hugh had ceased to exist . |
| 22 | She had not been able to come to terms with her ‘ public position ’ . |
| 23 | Even just now , when for a moment she had not been able to remember what day it was , and when Faith Lavender had already been dead a week . |
| 24 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 25 | She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from . |
| 26 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 27 | She explained that she had not been able to bring herself to discuss things with them , although she had managed to speak to her married brother , who had been very supportive and helpful . |
| 28 | She had not been able to hold down a job because of her phobia — no one is really willing to employ someone who will only come into the office on fine days , particularly in England ! |
| 29 | She had not been able to imagine why she should be suffering those anxiety attacks for so long . |
| 30 | She needed several things she had not been able to bring away from the Holborn house ; chemises , petticoats , nightgowns , drawers , a frilled nightcap that had taken her fancy , stockings , handkerchiefs . |