Example sentences of "[pron] that she had [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My billetor Mrs Webster told me that she had been employed there before her marriage and ‘ printed registered envelopes in two sizes for ten years , and liked the work ’ . |
| 2 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 3 | When I asked her how easy or difficult she had found the exercise , Sylvia told me that she had been quite surprised at how simple it had been . |
| 4 | She told me that she had been present when Balbinder was tested by the educational psychologist . |
| 5 | ( Her niece told me that she had been particularly good at her job . ) |
| 6 | It seems to be almost a perception of physics as an ‘ arts ’ subject ; indeed , Jane told me that she had been equally good at arts and sciences but had chosen sciences because of the job and university prospects . |
| 7 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 8 | She admitted to herself that she had been partly to blame . |
| 9 | Kate remembered all that , and then she said to herself that she had been meant to remember it . |
| 10 | For a long time she lay awake , staring into the darkness and telling herself that she had been absolutely crazy to let this happen . |
| 11 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 12 | Frankly , it had amazed him that she had been able to ride at all that afternoon , given how wasted she was the previous night , but then she was quite a determined little thing . |
| 13 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
| 14 | She noticed things about him that she had been forced to ignore . |
| 15 | If it was being pointed out to her that she had been born to a life of political responsibility and not simply pleasure by one member of the powerful and able house of Guise in France , the message was being reinforced from Scotland by another : her mother , Mary of Guise . |
| 16 | When the letter arrived telling her that she had been accepted to read History of Art , she shouted ‘ Hooray ! ’ and flung her arms around her brother , then burst into uncontrollable tears of relief . |
| 17 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 18 | Indeed this latest move to de-mystify Her Majesty was so unconvincing I could n't help but wonder if — at any moment — Beadle himself ( albeit heavily disguised ) might not appear beside the Queen to inform her that she had been framed . |
| 19 | Obviously some misshapen warped creation like Alex ; shame flushed heat all through her that she had been willing to give herself to some disgusting pervert . |
| 20 | She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall . |
| 21 | ‘ Tommy told us that she had been under the water and he had to do something to save her . |