Example sentences of "[subord] she had be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down . |
| 2 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 3 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 4 | She would be now , as she had been all that day , out praying for his soul . |
| 5 | She was becoming almost as sensitive to him as she had been all those years ago . |
| 6 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 7 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 8 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |