Example sentences of "she [verb] been [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if any of his fans still needed convincing , they had only to look into the happy , laughing face of his adoring wife Jean , at his side as she has been since his horrific car accident nearly three months ago . |
| 2 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 3 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 4 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 5 | Was that how she would have felt if she 'd been in her position ? |
| 6 | She 'd been in his company for less than a minute , and already they were sparring . |
| 7 | She had been at her worst between Spanish Fork and Dead Rat , when Elder Seth and the voices of the dead were arguing inside her head . |
| 8 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 9 | I had a son , and my mother was delighted , as she had been with her own son . |
| 10 | One minute she had been on her hands and knees scrubbing and the next she was being wined and dined by the owner of the largest store in town . |
| 11 | It seemed that she had been on her own forever . |
| 12 | Gemma , 11 , found fending for herself in her west London home while her mother , 31 , was on holiday in Spain , was taken in by Hammersmith Council on February 1 after complaints that she had been on her own for two days . |
| 13 | She had been on his mind since the morning he had seen her from his horse ; frightened yet defiant , sparking with anger . |
| 14 | Before he had met Kate Burrows , she had been on his list of ‘ things to do ’ . |
| 15 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 16 | She had been to her room and put on one of the swimsuits she had bought . |
| 17 | Mary Rose was a kind and simple woman , in awe of her husband , as she had been of her father , as she was of her parish priest . |
| 18 | Helen , who had been so calm during the night , was now cold and shaking with delayed shock , and Anne told her how glad she had been of her company . |
| 19 | The tiles around Virginia 's bedroom fire-place , with the central motif of sailing boat and lighthouse , were designed especially by Vanessa , moved as she had been by her sister 's novel , To the Lighthouse , which memorialised their childhood summers at St Ives in Cornwall . |
| 20 | But Lamprey had been as courteous as if she had been in her father 's drawing-room . |
| 21 | Diana insisted that she had been in her apartment , exhausted after a late night at the Ritz hotel where she and Prince Charles had attended Princess Margaret 's 50th birthday party . |
| 22 | She was now 15lb ( 7kg ) heavier than she had been in her single days ; she felt tired and run down , and suffered with migraines , abdominal bloating and increasing premenstrual symptoms including irritability , nervous tension , depression , tearfulness , confusion , weight gain , sore breasts and insomnia . |
| 23 | She had been in her mid-forties , a smart , efficient-looking woman who had hardly taken her eyes off him throughout the trial . |
| 24 | She was his servant , whatever she had been in her previous life , and she was ten or more years younger than himself , and what a battered old soldier he was , to be hungering after such a fresh young girl . |
| 25 | She had been in her cottage waiting for the return of Tom and Carrie when a villager ran past shouting news of the fire and she had turned out to help . |
| 26 | Rupert had never met Everard 's mother , but remembering his own mother and how comforting she had been in his childhood illnesses he was immediately reassured . |
| 27 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |
| 28 | Only then did she realise that , for all she had been in his company for a total of several hours now , she still did n't know the first thing about him . |
| 29 | Nervous , perhaps , on edge maybe , because it seemed to her that she would have to keep her wits about her unless she wanted this outing to end up as fruitless as the other times she had been in his company . |
| 30 | But she had been in his strong arms before , and as agitation at her own weakness assailed her , so , while she still could , she fought to be free . |