Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] been [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 2 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 3 | Consultation with the next of kin has a further advantage in that it may reveal information as to the personal circumstances of the patient and as to the choice which the patient might have made , if he or she had been in a position to make it . |
| 4 | ‘ Tommy told us that she had been under the water and he had to do something to save her . |
| 5 | If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy , all hell would break loose . |
| 6 | None of them knew that she had been with the FBI for two years , where she had specialized in the use of firearms , before joining UNACO three years ago . |
| 7 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 8 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
| 9 | I was almost certain that she had been to the British Museum no more recently than I had myself . |
| 10 | ‘ Who are you trying to kid ? ’ he taunted , and somehow he seemed to know , though how she did n't know , that she had been within an ace of responding to him . |
| 11 | Mr McBaine said , however , that she had been in a position of trust . |
| 12 | After some spirited discussion Margaret agreed with the policy but pointed out with some feeling that she had been in the chair of every meeting of the Economic Committee throughout the Falklands crisis . |
| 13 | The message read that she had been in the hotel that night ; that she had met David ; that a tape had been taken of the conversation ; that if he thought he could arrest her brother and charge him with murder , he should now try ; that , if he thought he could intern her whilst completely innocent , he should now try ; that several persons had listened to the conversation in the hotel that night and that one was an Ulster MP . |
| 14 | This was the first time in her life that she 'd been in the company of a man who could bring her out in nervous flushes , make her heartbeat race and her stomach turn all watery , just by watching her … |
| 15 | Harriet says it 's unusual for chess to make the front pages of the papers , in spite of the fact that she 's been on the front page of The Times . |
| 16 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 17 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 18 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 19 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 20 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 21 | For some reason she was more stricken by the loss of the letters than she had been by the news of John 's and Angela 's deaths . |
| 22 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 23 | But Bicker had seen her wandering Glenbrittle , and she had been to the bothy . |
| 24 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 25 | ‘ And she 's been to the best , ’ Antonio chipped in . |
| 26 | ‘ Yeah , and she 's been in a few times since . |
| 27 | all of them so when her class came up , cos she 'd been with the class right from nursery and when she put into this you know , with the double third year , cos they go upstairs for third and fourth year and they really do classes below she did n't know anything in the class ! |
| 28 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |
| 29 | If she 'd been in the kid 's place , she 'd have run off by now and left them all to it . |
| 30 | She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke . |