Example sentences of "she had been [adj] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been loyal to him , had understood him better than in all his youth he had ever known . |
| 2 | She had been close to her own flat , the streetlights on , but she had fought alone . |
| 3 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 4 | She thought she had been sympathetic to him , but , in the pain of love herself , could she have been kinder ? |
| 5 | And on top of that she had been rude to her boss . |
| 6 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |