Example sentences of "that she [vb past] 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 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He walked out and Jenna was left with the feeling that she had been decidedly ungracious , of uncertain temper and rather childish . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was just that she had been too much in love at the time to see it . |
| 18 | ‘ The next day she would always phone to say that she had been in and she 'd pick on a few things that she was n't quite happy with . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Laura blinked , realising that she had been so buried in her own thoughts that she 'd missed what Carole had been saying . |
| 24 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 25 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 26 | Her last thought before she fell asleep was the reaction she would get if they knew that she had been out with a policeman . |
| 27 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |