Example sentences of "she [vb past] [been] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel suddenly felt she 'd been through an emotional wringer . |
| 2 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 3 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 4 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 5 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 6 | If she had been in a similar position she would also have called on the nearest colleague . |
| 7 | She had been like a lazy cat , refusing to wake up properly , a phenomenon that he had known in young girls before . |