Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [been] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she had been dropped onto his path on purpose . |
| 2 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 3 | As soon as Honor was old enough she had been dragooned into helping with the housework , preparing meals if cook were ill , as well as acting as her mother 's companion . |
| 4 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 5 | Luce froze , realising how easily she 'd been lulled into a false sense of security . |
| 6 | Eventually she had been sent to a psychiatrist to see if he could help discover the reason for what appeared to be a purely psychosomatic condition . |
| 7 | Mysteriously she had been transported into the bubble — and not only into the bubble , but also into the spacecraft . |
| 8 | Mrs Jones , who presented poppies to Falklands veterans during the ceremony , said later she had been angered by Civvies . |
| 9 | For some minutes now she had been disturbed by the way Beth was pacing to and fro in front of the great fireplace , a deeply thoughtful expression on her face , and her whole manner one of extreme agitation . |
| 10 | Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches . |
| 11 | That was how she had been known as a child when people had contrasted her with her sister Paula . |
| 12 | Maybe she had been locked in her self-imposed prison for so long that now she was unable to control herself at all . |
| 13 | She was pleased at the distinction , and amused , as she told me , that twice she had been decorated by a Labour government ; she almost felt she ought to vote for them ! |
| 14 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 15 | Until then she had been tortured by fears that she might not recognise her son if she should see him . |
| 16 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 17 | One year earlier she had been seen in our hospital for joint pain and skin lesions on the lower legs which resembled erythema nodosum . |
| 18 | Twenty-four hours earlier she had been admitted to the Royal London Hospital , Whitechapel after a fall at her home in Stepney . |
| 19 | A little overwhelmed by the extent of his authority , she understood why she 'd been drawn to him . |
| 20 | You know , Mrs Winkowski , girls will talk , and I suppose it was during one of Millie 's lonely periods while under the sisters that she confided in Annabel why she had been sent to the school . |
| 21 | She did n't understand why she had been taken from them when they loved her and wanted to keep her . |
| 22 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 23 | ‘ Everyone does , ’ said Comfort , forgetting the times when she had been driven to distracted cruelty by Julia 's unfailing matter-of-factness — and by her concentration on other people . |
| 24 | Susan 's eyes grew wide as Maggie told her about her ride on the telegraph pole , ending up at The Haven where she 'd been rescued by Bryce . |
| 25 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 26 | When the door burst open he sat back on his heels and almost toppled over , and the child straightened up from where she had been thrust against the bed . |
| 27 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 28 | Both were nuns in the same religious order , one in the north of England , the other in France where she had been interned throughout the Occupation . |
| 29 | She died in her sleep at Nyack Hospital , north of New York , where she had been admitted on 9 March suffering from congestive heart failure . |
| 30 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |