Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [been] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huy wondered how long she had been in the capital , and how she had got there . |
| 2 | But already she had been to the zoo with him and accepted an invitation for future visits . |
| 3 | She realised how close she had been to the edge when the Yggdrasil bit came for her . |
| 4 | She had been right in her suspicion that David 's return had been something to do with a woman , but how wrong she had been over the reason . |
| 5 | Perhaps Eve knew all the time , maybe she had been in the shop when Mother was buying all this … all this horrible stuff . |
| 6 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 7 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |