Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arriving , she saw that the front door was still open : perhaps she had not been gone long , perhaps they had not yet missed her . |
| 2 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 3 | Perhaps she had already been to one . |
| 4 | The girl was standing near the back door , obviously she had not been invited inside . |
| 5 | Personally she had never been attracted to that sort in her life before . |
| 6 | Until tonight she had never been tempted … by anyone ! |
| 7 | ‘ All he needs is someone to take care of him , ’ she would always say of Seth , but lately she had n't been so sure . |
| 8 | ( She told me later she 'd just been in hospital . |
| 9 | Clearly she had not been in favour of Jenny 's alliance with Matthew . |
| 10 | But as far I could make out she had n't been outside , at least not in the garden where you 'd expect her to go . |
| 11 | So far she had not been able to reconcile her desire to keep everything the same and her desire for comfort . |
| 12 | She 'd always had boyfriends , although so far she had n't been tempted to engage in any serious commitment . |
| 13 | She 'd written well she did n't been consulted |
| 14 | To all intents and purposes he was an attache with the Kenyan delegation at the United Nations and the only person outside UNACO who knew the truth was his wife , and even she had only been briefed in the vaguest possible terms . |
| 15 | If only all those years ago she had not been so strapped by convention . |
| 16 | It must be almost dawn , she thought absently ; an hour ago she had not been able to see a thing . |
| 17 | And then , of course , six years ago she had still been reeling from the shock of Tony 's death . |
| 18 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 19 | To lose her was more than Paul himself could contemplate ; and surely she had not been indifferent to him . |
| 20 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 21 | We sat talking for about an hour while Anna tearfully related how she had recently been ‘ ditched ’ by her lover ( a young man of 23 ) for a girl of 18 . |
| 22 | One girl spent the whole afternoon talking to me about her family 's obsession with beauty , how she had always been praised and noticed for being pretty and not much else , and then , just at the end , spoke guiltily of ‘ wasting my time ’ with a subject so unimportant . |
| 23 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 24 | She began to hope that maybe she 'd already been rescued and this was n't Spiderglass at all . |
| 25 | It had lasted longer , but then she had still been touching him . |
| 26 | To him until then she had always been a safe comforting haven ; complete and seemingly self-sufficient in herself , she had always been an unfailing source of reassurance , ever ready to pour unquestioning love and affection on him in his moments of need . |
| 27 | But then she had always been able to do that for him . |
| 28 | Confronted with Donna 's exuberant wardrobe , she realized there were only two courses open to her : either she took it on the chin ( ‘ straight spine , old girl , ’ ) , or she slunk away and refused to answer the phone when Donna called to see why she had n't been met . |
| 29 | She was in a fairly emotional state , in that she 'd known nothing about the wedding , wondered why she had n't been told , and demanded the time and location of the ceremony . |
| 30 | Officers were last night trying to find her parents and discover why she had not been reported missing . |