Example sentences of "she [vb past] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 2 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 3 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 4 | She had been with fitzAlan and — |
| 5 | She had been to Nice countless times . |
| 6 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 7 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 8 | Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals . |