Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd already been married and divorced and she was quite a bit older than him and I , I was n't very happy about it to start , but they seem to have settled down alright |
| 2 | But now she admitted that she 'd simply been unaffected by them . |
| 3 | ‘ She 'd not been long in the village . |
| 4 | She 'd not been able to think what to say . |
| 5 | Penelope Huntley let go of it anxiously and said no , that it was perfectly fine , she 'd just been cold outside . |
| 6 | If she 'd ever been awake . |
| 7 | She 'd obviously been confused and had things on her mind . |
| 8 | Until the 1982 health service dispute , she 'd never been involved in a trade union , nor had she ever gone to any meetings about anything . |
| 9 | She 'd never been comfortable trading sallies with men . |
| 10 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 11 | She could remember the bra , it had been rather a good black lace wired Kayser Bondor , of a line that appeared to have been discontinued , as she 'd never been able to find another . |
| 12 | In his arms , pressed close against the hard , powerful body she 'd never been able to banish from her mind , she forgot everything but him , knew nothing but the agonising joy of being in his arms . |
| 13 | Heaven knew , with an entire house to decorate , there was n't much time for sun-worshipping , but she 'd never been able to resist the lure of the warmth for long . |
| 14 | She 'd never been able to lie to Candy — the other woman knew her too well , could see through her straight away . |
| 15 | After completing the questionnaires , Susan felt that working in a library would not only fit her answers but was one of the things she 'd always been interested in doing . |
| 16 | SHe 'd always been able to disassociate ‘ work ’ from pleasure , clients from lovers , but had been worried that the experience of Jahsaxa 's friends mauling hir might have intruded into this objectivity . |
| 17 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 18 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 19 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 20 | She 'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans . |
| 21 | In the daylight Julie could see the holes in the road which , the previous night , she 'd only been able to feel . |
| 22 | She understood that she did not like tunnels , though this was something she had previously been unaware of . |
| 23 | Strangely , she felt more resentful of this lady 's peremptory commands than she ever had of those of the merchants ' wives she had previously been obliged to swallow . |
| 24 | In therapy , Rose Greenacre managed to get in touch with the anger she had previously been unable to feel consciously . |
| 25 | She had even been clever enough to provide an escort for the T'ang . |
| 26 | She had even been able to effect an imperfect superimposition of her reality upon his own . |
| 27 | She had n't been good enough to keep her plants alive . |
| 28 | Maybe she had achieved her present position because she was a woman breaking into a man 's world , but she would n't have survived or been so successful if she had n't been good at her job . |
| 29 | If she had n't been well , perhaps , for some time , and had lost interest in the garden , and wanted to get the cottage done over for sale or letting , then she might have told them to go ? ’ |
| 30 | He was quiet , waiting for Shelley to talk , and she began to feel sorry because she had n't been impressed by his offer of a swish night out . |