Example sentences of "she [verb] been [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been upset by that . |
| 2 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 3 | Mrs Diggory was herself but little touched , Theda believed , but she had been upset by her husband 's woeful demeanour . |
| 4 | She had been impressed by the view , the quite breath-taking view , from the headland of Posillipo round to the curiously named Egg Castle , a box of brown stone on its rocky promontory in the Bay and on farther to the Sorrento Peninsula beyond . |
| 5 | She had been impressed by his knowledge and his observation and she loved and admired him a little more . |
| 6 | She had been shocked by Maria Luisa 's tragic countenance at the window but this was so much worse . |
| 7 | She had always disliked them , had never for a moment been able to see their virtues ; she had been bored by the classical , and had felt a positive , righteous contempt for the baroque and the neo-Gothic . |
| 8 | But Ms Armstrong said she had been bemused by the statement . |
| 9 | And she had been startled by the strength and abandon of her own response . |
| 10 | She had been surprised by his view of the Tech-Greens , however , and dismissed much of what he said about them as paranoid hysteria . |
| 11 | Lilis in New York also said she had been surprised by the findings . |
| 12 | Ever since childhood , while talking to the very old , she had been frightened by visions of herself attacking , hitting , assaulting , knocking off their glasses . |
| 13 | Afterwards , she had been annoyed by her reaction and ashamed of her cowardice . |
| 14 | Wardens had yelled at her , she had stumbled over rubble and hosepipes , her path lit by the glare of hundreds of fires , she had been terrified by the throbbing of the engines of the bombers overhead and the crump of bombs , but she had run on . |
| 15 | The plain fact was she had been terrified by her own reflection , and this was not lightly to be dismissed . |
| 16 | She had been appalled by Caro 's first job , lowly assistant gardener in Limetree Park , riding across the lawns on a great smelly mower , digging out dead bedding plants and dragging pruned branches to bonfires . |
| 17 | She had been appalled by Churchill 's decision to shoot down German aircraft — marked with the red cross — picking up ditched fliers in the Channel , and she argued passionately that the saturation bombing of Britain 's cities — bombing that Hitler had promised would never happen — had been forced on him by Churchill 's repeated refusal to stop the air-raids on Berlin that had set the whole thing off . |
| 18 | She had been amused by the easy way he 'd said , ‘ I lied . ’ |