Example sentences of "she [vb past] been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been upset by that . |
| 2 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 3 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 4 | But what if she 'd been wrong in that — what if there were other things he wanted to do ? |
| 5 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 6 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 7 | The storeroom ( yes , she had been right about that after all ) was not very big and not very well lit . |
| 8 | Joan Durbeyfield , watching , wondered for the first time if she had been right in encouraging Tess to go . |
| 9 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 10 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 11 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 12 | She had been convinced at first that it had all been a mistake , that she had indeed misread the unspoken message contained in the postcard . |
| 13 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 14 | In the past she had been obliged to other people , William included , and it was n't good for the character . |
| 15 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 16 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 17 | She had been angry at first , then disbelieving , but finally she had gone to the aerodrome to see the padre , begging him for news of Rob . |
| 18 | At ten to seven she had been ready for twenty minutes . |
| 19 | She had been unpopular with militant nationalists , who suspected her of being too conciliatory towards Moscow , and they voted down her price rise proposals on the grounds that they might prove socially divisive and thus weaken Lithuania 's resistance to Soviet pressure . |
| 20 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 21 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 22 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 23 | She was not going to fall in love with him , but even as she said this vehemently to herself , Sara was afraid that she had already gone over the precipice she had been conscious of this morning . |
| 24 | She had been precious to each of them . |
| 25 | On admission she had been anuric for 24 h ( haemoglobin 4.4 g/dL , potassium 4.1 mmol/L , creatinine 937 mmol/L , urea 119 mmol/L , lactic dehydrogenase 3327 IU/L , platelets 71×10/L ) . |
| 26 | What she never admitted was that in the beginning , she had been terrified of this new mode of travel and the first few miles had been passed with her eyes tightly closed and her lips moving in prayer . |
| 27 | And she had been pretty on that slab , all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out . |
| 28 | She had thought he would be happy about Mrs Gotobed 's message because she would have been , but she had been wrong about that . |