Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 2 | Lary means mouthy or she 'd was lary clothes , loud clothes . |
| 3 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 4 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 5 | Old enough to take care of himself , while she had been eight years old . |
| 6 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 7 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 8 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 9 | She did n't want to understand him , but heated recognition rippled through her as she stared at his mouth , as unwillingly fascinated by its sensual curve as she had been six years ago , when all her breathlessly adored heroes had suddenly become prosaic and petty with the advent of the man from Hong Kong . |
| 10 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |