Example sentences of "she [verb] be before " in BNC.

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1 And if she has already enjoyed the satisfaction of having climbed to a new standard of proficiency , higher than she has been before , why should she care one way or another to know that others have not yet reached this standard ?
2 He could sense that she was alive somewhere close , where the Men had taken her , and that she was very near her end ; nearer than she had been before .
3 She could be as she had been before .
4 Instead , feeling as though with each step she took she was treading on her dreams , destroying them forever , she followed him mutely back to the sofa and seated herself where she had been before .
5 She was even more aware of him in the total blackness than she had been before .
6 She 's been before . ’
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