Example sentences of "she [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She 'd been through so much with an alcoholic daughter , unemployed husband and dyslexic son . |
| 32 | She 'd been under a spell — she must have been . |
| 33 | 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 ? |
| 34 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 35 | She 'd been at it since tea-time , since lunch , since she got up . |
| 36 | Helen did n't help herself or increase the possibility of peace on earth by saying she 'd been at Dad 's Chislehurst gig . |
| 37 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 38 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 39 | ‘ She 'd been at work , she said , when she went into labour . |
| 40 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |
| 41 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 42 | Any conference she 'd been to , everyone wound up in her room long after midnight , playing poker and spouting Bacardi bullshit , wine-bottle wisdom . |
| 43 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 44 | A long time ago , she 'd learned just how dear she 'd been to Ewan Famber : an experiment . |
| 45 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 46 | She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds . |
| 47 | With a wardrobe comprising jeans and sweatshirts , a make-up bag containing an eight-year-old foundation and a hairstyle that had n't changed in ten years ( husband Steve never noticed when she 'd been to the hairdressers ) , Juliana felt in a rut ‘ I feel I 'm 30 going on 40 and would love to look more stylish , but I just do n't know where to start . ’ |
| 48 | She could feel her cheeks burning as girls she 'd been to the convent school with in Naas said , ‘ Welcome , mam ’ and some had slyness in their smiles . |
| 49 | ‘ She 'd been to the French Riviera — or it could have been the Swiss Alps — or it could have been both — for a good couple of months . ’ |
| 50 | She 'd been to a lot of trouble finding something original , something you 'd enjoy . ’ |
| 51 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |
| 52 | Yeah , she 'd been to college but she could n't get her car started , she had to get her dad to drive her in and pick her up . |
| 53 | She 'd been to three lectures . |
| 54 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |
| 55 | Me mother used to go in and lie down when she 'd been to the work . |
| 56 | She 'd been into lots of Homes where everybody was sat separately , with their space between their chairs , whereas a lot of our people sit quite close to each other and lean over . |
| 57 | She 'd been into biking since she went out with a Hell 's Angel called Rafe when she was sixteen . |
| 58 | Approaching Valletta at dusk , she 'd been below decks , in the act of unclipping her bikini-top , about to change clothes after a long lazy day sunbathing with Penny , Devlin at the helm . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | He 'd been no more than another face around the yard on the two or three occasions that she 'd been by , no reason that he should have made any lasting impression on her at all . |