Example sentences of "have been [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally is 22 and has been with her current boyfriend for three years . |
| 2 | A personal bodyguard was assigned to her and has been with her day and night ever since . |
| 3 | ‘ Anna has suffered a great deal already , yet nothing that 's happened has been of her making . |
| 4 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 5 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 6 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 7 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 8 | Was that how she would have felt if she 'd been in her position ? |
| 9 | Naylor Massingham had not been the easiest of people to deal with when he 'd been in her home ; how would she fare now that she was , so to speak , on his territory ? |
| 10 | So by the end of the day , we 'd met Sam , we knew her , we 'd been in her house , we 'd looked around her house . |
| 11 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 12 | When she might have been at her most useful , since she was so much more skilled in nursing than Annunciata , she was not allowed near Mrs Browning . |
| 13 | The intense tropical heat was debilitating and Eva was n't as wise as she should have been about her health . |
| 14 | If Hank had done something particularly dreadful , either Donna Frizzell or some other nosey parker would have been on her doorstep by now to tell her about it . |
| 15 | It should have been on her money but William was on a full grant at university . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The girl would have been in her late twenties , early thirties , Newman estimated . |
| 18 | She must have been in her late thirties then , but to me she seemed timeless . |
| 19 | I was also warned to stay away from the tennis court if anyone was playing , but on one Saturday , a party was in progress and Miss Betty Farr , who must have been in her early twenties , spotted me trying not to be seen , called me over and plied me with cakes and lemonade . |
| 20 | Quite a little cracker in her day , she must have been in her late thirties now . |
| 21 | At five o'clock in the morning Ada Neumann would have been in her kitchen , simmering the dozens of doughnut-shaped rolls in hot water for a few minutes before baking them in the oven , glazing them with egg-white and then showering them with sesame seeds . |
| 22 | He met my mother when he was in his early thirties and she must have been in her teens . |
| 23 | Dorothy looked determined rather than festive ; she would have been in her forties at the time but already stood as though planted , like an elderly woman . |
| 24 | Not that he could ever have been in her bed , at least not at Leamings . |
| 25 | " It should have been in her handbag , because the shopman said she did n't go on to the pillar-box to post anything . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ She looked comparatively young , but she might have been in her late thirties , signorina . ’ |
| 28 | I mean she must have been in her seventies . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He observed that his authority and influence were likely to have put her still more off her guard than she would naturally have been from her age and inexperience ; that a fear and awe of the prisoner might check her resistance … ’ |