Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , she has been described as one of the founders of modern British geography . |
| 2 | She 'd been waylaid within ten feet of the front door , which did n't surprise me , by a chinless wonder in a baggy suit and powder blue trainers ( nobody wears trainers with a suit any more ) . |
| 3 | He said she 'd been raped at 18 by a Lebanese man in London . |
| 4 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 5 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 6 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 7 | She said she had been threatened with hundreds of pickets if she did not reinstate Miss Owen . |
| 8 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 9 | She had been born in 1688 in Marston St. Lawrence , and had married Richard Jennens of Mollington , Oxfordshire , in 1708 [ Baker , 1 , 720 ] . |
| 10 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 11 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 12 | But , flicking her glance away from him when he caught her looking at him , she formed the view that she must have gone a little light-headed with the guilt of her conscience , because it seemed to her that since knowing him she had been visited by one strange thought or feeling after another . |
| 13 | ‘ She had been warned on four previous occasions about going overdrawn . |
| 14 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 15 | She had been sentenced to three months in jail . |
| 16 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 17 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 18 | She had been found at two that afternoon by a party searching the Pertsey and north-west region of Vangmoor . |
| 19 | She had been told on one occasion by the EP that Tom 's behaviour problems might have been the result of frustration over reading difficulties . |
| 20 | She had been widowed for five months , very nearly . |
| 21 | She died in her sleep at Nyack Hospital , north of New York , where she had been admitted on 9 March suffering from congestive heart failure . |
| 22 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 23 | At her husband 's death she had been left with four children under the age of five . |
| 24 | For too long now , she had been starved of one particular need , the kind a respectable woman should not dwell on for too long , a deep-down need that only a man could satisfy . |
| 25 | Lady Dawn Kennedy , 31 , was remanded in custody accused of falsely claiming she had been raped by three men . |