Example sentences of "she [vb past] be at " in BNC.
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| 31 | She retreated round the stall ; she had been at the front , helping a customer to choose something from what remained unsold . |
| 32 | If she had been at court the young dandies would have written odes and sonnets to her eyebrows , her finger nails and her sweet rose mouth . |
| 33 | She had been at a Women 's Aid conference in London all weekend , and she was tired and depressed . |
| 34 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 35 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 36 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 37 | When she had been at college she had socialised in plenty and had had her fair share of boyfriends , Ashley reflected , as they drove along , but since then her energies had been single-mindedly channelled into her career . |
| 38 | Sophie looked almost as surprised as she had been at Helen 's news . |
| 39 | For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ? |
| 40 | By the time InterSpray arrived back in Southampton she had been at sea for 156 days , 14 hours and 9 minutes . |
| 41 | She had been at it . |
| 42 | The first time he 'd seen her had been at Dave 's , and Dave had kept a possessive arm round her all evening , warning others away . |