Example sentences of "[be] [verb] she [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when she had n't been arguing she had been calm , efficient , distant … |
| 2 | Before being dumped she had been beaten , stripped and then had petrol poured over her body and was set on fire . |
| 3 | Pamela had left no note but it 's understood she 'd been depressed before her death . |
| 4 | By the time Chloe was rescued she 'd been horribly burned . |
| 5 | He rang police to say she was missing — and was told she had been killed under the wheels of a tractor . |
| 6 | It was rumoured she had been a barmaid , heady stuff in those days . |
| 7 | Everyone was assuming she had been . |
| 8 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 9 | Before she was killed she 'd been sexually abused . |
| 10 | When that was discovered she had been thrown out on the streets , and subsequently forced to live in a brothel . |