Example sentences of "time she [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 2 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 3 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 4 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 5 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 6 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 7 | It was the first time she had been so near a man with sweet breath and the scent of success about him . |
| 8 | It was the first time she had been into the city since that awful night of the cockfight back in February . |
| 9 | It was the first time she had been able to grant his wish and take him to visit Santa Claus in a large department store , and that made it for her the happiest Christmas she could remember . |
| 10 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 11 | It was the first time she had left little Bradley , the first time she had been out to celebrate his birth — and it was the last time he would ever see his mother again . |
| 12 | It was the fourth time she had been badly hurt on duty . |
| 13 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 14 | This time she had been sent for urgently because Nigel had taken a turn for the worse — in fact , had nearly died after his peritonitis operation . |
| 15 | Sister Cas. was not often bloodyminded , and this was the first time she had been so with me . |
| 16 | For a long time she had been out of control , unable to cope with the everyday demands of her new royal role . |
| 17 | It was the first time she had been left on her own and she had managed quite well except that she had given Mrs Prichard , the colliery manager 's wife , short change by mistake . |
| 18 | Emily had only been away from home twice , and each time she had been very unhappy . |
| 19 | It seemed an age before he returned , and all that time she had been painfully aware of the blaze in her inflamed hind-quarters . |
| 20 | All the time she had been in the house . |
| 21 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 22 | She thought now , This was the time to kill him , the time she had been planning ; the thought lit her up , she felt unaccustomed muscles in her face move again , her tongue seek her lips and pass over them as she considered how to do it . |
| 23 | It was also first time she had been back to Earth since being drafted into Spacefleet , escaping , and running for the stars in a clapped-out old trading ship owned by a clapped-out old trader . |
| 24 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 25 | In the short time she had been in the City , she had been propositioned by a well-dressed lush , witnessed a gangland execution and been pursued through a deserted subway station by a bulky killer . |
| 26 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 27 | Like that time she had been followed , last October . |
| 28 | The last time she had been to the office she had been confined in a poky little interview room near the editor 's office , but she hoped to avoid that fate this time . |
| 29 | Then they were in the flat , the first time she had been there since leaving Oliver typing his letter the previous morning . |
| 30 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |