Example sentences of "she had [adv] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now .
2 Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt .
3 She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris .
4 She had not been in that position .
5 as if she had just been in actual combat she dropped down on to the couch and sat gasping , drawing in long , shuddering breaths .
6 She had never been to this exalted place before and it seemed to be a place of dreams .
7 She had never been in such a place before , and she saw at once that most of the men had girls with them who were certainly not their wives , or the kind of girl one took home to mother .
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