Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relieved because she has been afraid that somehow it would have disappeared , she pulls out her key , but the driver 's door is unlocked . |
| 2 | Yes , she has been lucky but , if she wishes to live down south because of her work , why not ? |
| 3 | For a while , there , she 'd been convinced that everything was coming together . |
| 4 | They had advised her to have the baby adopted , told her she 'd not be able to earn a living for them both , but she 'd been willful and gone her own way . |
| 5 | He told Police she 'd been violent and emotional when she left him at about 11.30 , an hour after she was supposed to have arrived . |
| 6 | Raging at Felipe had just been because she 'd been shocked and scared for him when she 'd seen him take off into the air . |
| 7 | She 'd been shocked when she 'd heard Héloise was receiving treatment , even though Gaston 's letters had been positive and optimistic on the subject . |
| 8 | She 'd been trim and neat and pretty . |
| 9 | When Jeanne had found herself separated from Madeleine , she 'd been distraught and convinced her friend had been killed . |
| 10 | Earlier today she 'd been jealous because he 'd smiled at the three women in a way he 'd never smiled at her . |
| 11 | She said she 'd been terrified but somehow managed to keep calm . |
| 12 | She 'd been surprised and off-balance on hearing his voice , but her subsequent enthusiasm and willingness to help him out had been well-feigned . |
| 13 | Could she have been right when she had thought , almost a week ago , that Roman was about to tell her he had asked Dana to marry him ? |
| 14 | She shouted her innermost feelings about the hurt and anger she felt towards her mother who had ill-treated her a great deal when she had been young and in her mother 's care . |
| 15 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 16 | THE woman who left her 11-year-old daughter alone in a London flat while she went on holiday to Spain denied last night that she had been heartless or wicked . |
| 17 | Although she had been unaware that the small print contained a wide exclusion clause , the Court of Appeal held that the clause protected the seller from liability in respect of defects in the machine . |
| 18 | On her arrival in Adelaide to discuss a joint venture with a fabric firm , she had been unaware that the last race of the season would be held here during her stay , Ashley reflected , but the newspapers had soon put her straight . |
| 19 | She had been relieved when he first appeared in it ; it was bright blue striped with red , expensive , obviously new , a reassuring sign that the mother she had never met and of whom he never spoke , tried to take good care of him . |
| 20 | His eyes blackened angrily and Ruth supposed she had been right and exposed him for what he was — a cool bastard . |
| 21 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 22 | Her mother was only about 21 at the time — she had been married when only 13 . |
| 23 | She had been married and divorced , had had fifteen lovers , give or take a little , had been to the United States seventeen times , to Africa twice , explored from a car or at a leisurely pace the capitals of Europe , twice circled the world , done the ‘ sophisticated ’ things but left undone so many ordinary things . |
| 24 | She had been disappointed that he showed no love of the poetry and books which meant so much to her , only reading about industrial history and dry facts and figures . |
| 25 | The tears came then ; great gasping sobs she had been unwilling and unable to cry since the day of the letter . |
| 26 | There was nothing in the cast of her features to suggest that she had been alarmed or frightened at the moment of her death . |
| 27 | It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago . |
| 28 | The previous year when she finished fifth she discovered she had been pregnant when taking part . |
| 29 | She had been shocked and upset to see her friend so ill , and suddenly John realised that she was weeping as she walked along with her face averted . |
| 30 | She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants . |