Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] she [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved to the table , put her keys down , suddenly realising she had been clutching them tightly . |
| 2 | He 's going to be ages , thought Juliet desperately , suddenly realising she 'd been standing with her hands clenched together , and her eyes screwed tightly as if to hear better . |
| 3 | It was Diana , aged six — old enough to understand she had been left , but not yet old enough to understand why — who felt so bereft . |
| 4 | Rachel suddenly felt she 'd been through an emotional wringer . |
| 5 | I soon realized she 'd been raped — no need to go into the details . |
| 6 | The new pleading , so far as relevant to the claim against the building society , constituted ( i ) a plea of non est factum based on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know she had been appointed attorney and did not know she was signing a transfer of the property ; ( ii ) a plea that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney . |
| 7 | He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 10 | I just wish she had been here to see it , ’ said trainer Dave Morris . |
| 11 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |
| 12 | A MOTHER who returned home to find she had been burgled , collapsed and died minutes after the discovery . |
| 13 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 14 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 15 | Emily , swimming vigorously , came to assist her , and together they managed to reach shallow water , where Gwendolen promptly denied she had been in danger . |
| 16 | A postmortem later revealed she had been strangled . |
| 17 | At first it was thought her death was an accident and she had been choked when her necklace snagged on branches , but a second post-mortem examination five days later revealed she had been murdered . |
| 18 | Lilis in New York also said she had been surprised by the findings . |
| 19 | Jacqueline would later say she had been an alcoholic since she was fourteen . |
| 20 | She let out the breath she had n't even realised she 'd been holding . |
| 21 | She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't think she 's been either strengthened or weakened , ’ one Cabinet minister declared . |
| 23 | Er , and I do n't think she 's been in trouble before . |
| 24 | Well she always used to say , why you do n't say anything , but she always used to say to , she 'd never come down to the house , I mean I do n't think she 's been to my house , house five times |
| 25 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 26 | I do n't think she 's been saving I know that name is on my list . |
| 27 | ‘ The whole idea is she wo n't know she 's been done . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't believe she 'd been drinking . |
| 29 | It was as though she 'd been let loose from shackles she had n't even known she 'd been wearing . |
| 30 | But how spoilt she 's been ! |