Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] she [vb past] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna guessed that it was more than two months since she had been to the cottage . |
| 2 | She felt that she had changed entirely since it was written , and chiefly during the three days since she had been in London . |
| 3 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gemma , 11 , found fending for herself in her west London home while her mother , 31 , was on holiday in Spain , was taken in by Hammersmith Council on February 1 after complaints that she had been on her own for two days . |
| 6 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 7 | He 'd been no more than another face around the yard on the two or three occasions that she 'd been by , no reason that he should have made any lasting impression on her at all . |