Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] she [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police and ambulancemen who rushed to Birmingham 's New Street station expected to find she had been killed . |
| 2 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 3 | But within six months she 'd known she had been right , and she had now reached the stage where she thoroughly enjoyed her work . |
| 4 | The action seemed to break her train of thought , for afterwards she did not resume speaking , seemed to forget she had been speaking and sat waiting passively . |
| 5 | In fact , ever since she 'd arrived she 'd been constantly battling , without really being a hundred per cent sure what she was battling against . |
| 6 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 7 | She had thought she had been keeping watch on the creeping grey-streaked matter , but it had moved suddenly , the embryonic fingers clutching the ground , pulling the oozing , mucousy river forward until it was bubbling over her feet . |
| 8 | Although Dotty had all the words , Dawn Allenby 's face spoke volumes ; until love had struck she had been merely adequate in the role of Olwyn . |
| 9 | When he had begun she had been inclined to send him off or run away herself ; but his determination had kept her listening and she had watched him walk away with his plan — it was more of a plan than a proposal — well lodged in her mind and unexpectedly endearing . |