Example sentences of "that she [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 2 | It seemed that she had been here years , and already she had driven a wedge between her and Ben . |
| 3 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 4 | She thought ruefully that she had been pretty unfair . |
| 5 | To which she replied that she had been sound asleep , that she had heard a desultory conversation , but its substance had nothing whatever to do with her . |
| 6 | She admitted to herself that she had been partly to blame . |
| 7 | He thought that she had been exceptionally sweet to Emmie lately and he was grateful to her . |
| 8 | ( Her niece told me that she had been particularly good at her job . ) |
| 9 | It was the first time in her life that she had been openly insulted . |
| 10 | It seems to be almost a perception of physics as an ‘ arts ’ subject ; indeed , Jane told me that she had been equally good at arts and sciences but had chosen sciences because of the job and university prospects . |
| 11 | He walked out and Jenna was left with the feeling that she had been decidedly ungracious , of uncertain temper and rather childish . |
| 12 | It was impossible not to feel that she had been badly treated , but the bad treatment came from the intransigent doctors and not from a Prime Minister who , as she must have known , was immensely supportive and would not willingly have been associated with any slight on her . |
| 13 | His eyes narrowed at this bitterness , but he simply left the room , and Jenna had the feeling that she had been as ungracious as he appeared to think . |
| 14 | She did n't want to explain that she had been too nervous to go in the kitchen and cook it , too lily-livered to turn her back to the window as she lit the gas , too timorous to cause even the tiny sounds of roasting game . |
| 15 | It was just that she had been too much in love at the time to see it . |
| 16 | My mother would answer inaudibly , but it would be evident from my father 's all-too-audible answering tirade that she had been gently remonstrating . |
| 17 | Because , while being regressed , the patient is well aware of his or her present-day persona in addition to the previous one , Myra found it very distressing to think that she had been so happy to go along with all Hugh 's demands . |
| 18 | Men like Ryan , and probably Leo , could have their pick of women , which made it even more unbelievable that she had been so stupid as to believe Ryan . |
| 19 | It had all gone — the thin veneer of self-confidence , the determination that she had been so proud of acquiring and nurturing since that first audition in Vienna . |
| 20 | Laura blinked , realising that she had been so buried in her own thoughts that she 'd missed what Carole had been saying . |
| 21 | Her previous recording with Sir Charles Groves featured Crusell 's Second Concerto , in which she was partnered by the English Chamber Orchestra , and it became evident from our conversation that she had been especially happy to work with Sir Charles once again , in this new recording of English music for clarinet and orchestra . |
| 22 | ‘ You do a bit , ’ said Betty with a note of true concern , and quite taking the wind out of Lydia 's sails , who wondered whether it was true that she had been seriously wounded and was repressing her hurt to the detriment of her psyche . |
| 23 | Under the new Dangerous Dogs Act , Cleo could have been put down , but the court accepted her owner 's plea that she had been deliberately and maliciously let out of a shed , and set a new precedent by allowing the dog to go back to her family . |
| 24 | Moire Rooney asked with a gentle smile , and Patrick immediately knew that she had been deliberately keeping Jane in the kitchen while Tom spoke his piece . |
| 25 | Mitch did not know where she was either and seemed to think that she had been deliberately keeping out of his way . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that she had been deeply touched by the open friendliness of the Greek couple , it came almost as a relief when finally Niall signalled that it was time to leave . |
| 27 | Six weeks later she reported back that she had been very well on holiday with no travel-sickness or stomach problems but since returning home the digestive symptoms had gradually increased in intensity . |
| 28 | The appropriate procedures for investigation were followed and the opinion of the consultant paediatrician who examined her was that she had been chronically abused sexually . |
| 29 | In August 1991 she disclosed to her older half-sister that she had been sexually abused by her father . |
| 30 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |