Example sentences of "[subord] she had [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also said she was sorry that she might be away a little longer than she had expected to be . |
| 2 | She might have backed off , gone into the pub and telephoned for a cab to fetch her ; but Holly knew who she was supposed to be meeting and she would feel foolishly fainthearted next day if she had to confess to being too nervous to see the matter through . |
| 3 | If she had happened to be a woman out of touch with real life , that would have bored him . |
| 4 | If she had learned to be self-effacing , cultivated a mysterious absence or aloofness they might forget her altogether , or so she feared deep down , not openly , not admitting to herself this appalling possibility . |
| 5 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 6 | Could he still love her when she had ceased to be a symbol and walked in the lesser light of her own individuality ? |
| 7 | If she had really been as indifferent as she had pretended to be , then she would n't have reacted at all . |
| 8 | She was very much as she had expected to be , having found in her marriage nothing to surprise her nor to cause her the least distress . |
| 9 | She was not as disconcerted as she had expected to be . |
| 10 | Still she could hear her own cries , as she had begged to be released — but nay , he had flung her down on the stone floor and leaned over her . |