Example sentences of "she had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City . |
| 2 | Her mother was only about 21 at the time — she had been married when only 13 . |
| 3 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 4 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 5 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 6 | When she was eighteen and had actually been accepted at Chelsea Art School , she had been determined to be somebody wonderful , somebody famous , like Amelia Earhart or Margaret Mead . |
| 7 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 8 | She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall . |
| 9 | She fetched herself a packet of sandwiches from the counter and then came back to where she had been sitting . |
| 10 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 11 | Jay felt she had been too long alone on her pure-white sandy desert island . |
| 12 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 13 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 14 | Jay 's rainbow wings fluttered around a sun-sparkling river that had become her life , where she had been moping by an old canal full of dead shopping trolleys for years . |
| 15 | Yes , Dragonfly Moonchild she had been and loved the summer-child in her . |
| 16 | That winter had been savage , she had been savage that winter . |
| 17 | Well , not quite , but she felt safer after the memory of other loves , other times when she had been happy . |
| 18 | Tears again , she felt like the child she had been when her father gave wild stinging slaps to her legs by way of welcome after she 'd run away from home . |
| 19 | She had been herself , until St Patrick 's Day and In Love . |
| 20 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 21 | How often had this meant an edgy evening , when she had been unable to concentrate on what people were saying because of an ill-placed fabric rose or an over-embroidered antique shawl ? |
| 22 | She had been ‘ carried away ’ as Paul had put it . |
| 23 | She had been lucky with the weather . |
| 24 | To avoid the trouble she had been obliged to invent a friend , a suicidal woman friend with whom she was staying that night . |
| 25 | She had been different from her brother and from his friends who used to visit , make themselves at home in my clean room , on the clean bed , delighted to find a video and a cassette recorder and cassettes , who ate my nice food and listened to loud music and swallowed the drink they brought with them . |
| 26 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 27 | She was just like me , she had been told that her prognosis was good and yet here she was four years later . |
| 28 | She had been raped and stabbed . |
| 29 | The evidence at the inquest had vindicated the struggle by the dead woman 's father , John Ward , to make the authorities accept she had been murdered . |
| 30 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |