Example sentences of "she had [been] [det] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home .
2 Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success .
3 She had been such a fine woman .
4 Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down .
5 She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now .
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