Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 2 | She 'd been slender before . |
| 3 | Lord C had said she 'd borne them with stoicism , but looking back she realised she 'd been disappointed not to receive the whole dozen . |
| 4 | She 'd been fractious lately and just could n't shake off thoughts and doubts about him and Maria Luisa . |
| 5 | She 'd been miserable too long , yet she felt a sort of sick excitement at the thought of meeting Leo . |
| 6 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
| 7 | Stroud said she 'd been terrified throughout . |
| 8 | How could she have been foolish enough to let it happen ? she asked herself inwardly as the lift slowed and stopped , and its wide metal doors sighed open . |
| 9 | If she had been rational enough to tell him something it certainly would n't have been that . |
| 10 | She might well have stood too , but he was close by and she had a quick memory of when she had been close up against his body before . |
| 11 | Before the end of the year she had been married again , to Thomas Sidney , brother of Sir Philip Sidney , the poet [ q.v. ] , and nephew of the Countess of Huntingdon . |
| 12 | She had been married before , of course , and he had n't been surprised to find out . |
| 13 | When she was flush , she had been stupid enough to pay over the odds . |
| 14 | When she was broke , she had been stupid enough to plead for credit . |
| 15 | She had been stupid enough to have kissed him once , but tonight she would make sure that the mistake was n't repeated . |
| 16 | Now that she had met Silas Wilder , Lucy realised it would not be easy to persuade him to visit his stepmother , and once again she wondered why she had been stupid enough to have allowed herself to become involved in this situation . |
| 17 | ‘ They were n't on it , ’ Roman said incredulously , and she realised that , though she had been thankful not to see Dana , Roman must be worried sick about Berenice and livid that Garry had , once again , escaped him . |
| 18 | Where once she had been desperate not to miss Johnny , now it seemed that she was fearful at the thought of meeting him . |
| 19 | Some time back , when the warning signs were becoming clearer and Richard was incapacitated , she had been cunning enough to transfer certain holdings into her own name . |
| 20 | She had been breathless ever since . |
| 21 | And when Jenny had got ill , she had been willful again , told herself she could manage to get her better without having the doctor to see her . |
| 22 | But she had been rash enough to believe he was starting to care for her . |
| 23 | In Cairo , exhausted by the traumas of recent weeks , she had been concerned not only about the Shah and his morale , but also about their four children who had gone ahead of them to the states . |
| 24 | She had been wary before but now she was paranoid about the whole concept of relationships . |
| 25 | If she had been angry before , she was twice as angry now . |
| 26 | She had been foolish enough to ask if it had a name . |
| 27 | She had been dismissive enough with Manfro , but she was n't quite sure how she was going to get out of her predicament . |
| 28 | She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations . |
| 29 | But she had been lucky once , it was too much to hope for another equally timely arrival . |
| 30 | Now , when Paul told her the truth , her first thought was that she wished she had got herself an extra gown , while she was at it ; in fact she had been unable conveniently to carry any more , or would have done so . |