Example sentences of "she have just [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her musical career continues — she has just been asked to write a song for a new album by Belinda Carlisle . |
| 2 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 3 | Merlyn said : ‘ We ca n't have her going around saying what she has just been saying . |
| 4 | ( Emma looking in a mirror , indoors , in the evening ; she has just been seduced by Rodolphe ) ‘ Her eyes had never been so large , so black , nor contained such depth . ’ |
| 5 | Still it was hard when she 'd just been asked to blow up an orbiting city with almost a million inhabitants . |
| 6 | The gleam in his eyes made her uncomfortably certain he knew perfectly well what she 'd just been thinking . |
| 7 | ‘ Why ? ’ she demanded , finally deciding that she 'd just been insulted . |
| 8 | She 'd just been visiting a widow of an old army friend of Yury 's , who had a bad attack of flu . |
| 9 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
| 10 | Well I 'm gla glad she 's getting something done about it now cos you and she 'd just been left , sh er , had n't been persuaded she 'd have just let it go on and on and on would n't |
| 11 | Then drew back quickly , as if she 'd just been burned . |
| 12 | She remembered what she 'd just been doing . |
| 13 | His eyes raked mockingly over her dishevelled nakedness , and she shuddered , still caught up in the storm he had unleashed , but horrified , too , to realise what she 'd just been doing . |
| 14 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 15 | When asked what the problem was , her friends told me she had just been assigned to teach in a distant , rural middle school . |
| 16 | He had no income when he married The Maid of Bath , the singer Miss Linley , but he used the £3,000 she had just been given by a disappointed but grateful , rich admirer , to buy a grand house in London 's fashionable Portman Square , and furnish it lavishly . |
| 17 | She was still trying to take in the information she had just been given . |
| 18 | She had just been shaken by a ‘ terrible adventure ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I beg your pardon ? ’ said Mrs Cramp again , reeling back as if she had just been slapped in the face . |
| 20 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 21 | He strode away without giving her a chance to speak , leaving her with the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered . |
| 22 | Why did she get the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered ? |
| 23 | She realised , wearily , almost too tired to care , that she had just been made the butt of a joke . |
| 24 | We knew she had just been promoted at work , so it could n't be that . |
| 25 | The clang of a sword blade ringing on the stones where she had just been standing made the order unnecessary . |
| 26 | Blanche absorbed the implication of what she had just been told : Mills had not betrayed Zbigniew Nowak and so could not have been murdered because of it . |
| 27 | She was particularly glad to see him as she had just been told she was pregnant . |
| 28 | SHE lives with Batman star Michael Keaton , she danced with Bruce Springsteen on his video of Dancing In the Dark , she 's just been seen in the movie Cocoon : The Return . |
| 29 | ‘ So far she 's just been infaturated with him . |
| 30 | I want to reach out and touch her , like she 's just been bereaved . |