Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] in love " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 3 | He 'd been in love with Arianna , you could hear it in his voice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That is to say , Tolkien 's stories could be said to be an embodiment of that Northernness with which Lewis and Greeves had been in love since early adolescence . |
| 6 | Diana had been in love with Prince Charles for several years , since their first meeting when she was a sixteen-year-old home from school for half-term and he was her elder sister 's boyfriend . |
| 7 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 8 | She was the beautiful lady with whom Orsino had been in love , at the beginning ; then — |
| 9 | Yes , they had been in love once , that was before they had children . |
| 10 | She had been in love with Alexander . |
| 11 | From the very start , he had been in love with her , following her act around the clubs . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to see the traction engines in a minute , ’ said Betty , looking round ; but Lydia knew that she really wanted to see Beuno , since it was n't long since she herself had been in love and she recognised the signs . |
| 13 | She had projecting teeth and told everyone who would listen that she had been in love with Yorick since she was twelve . |
| 14 | The third was to talk to the man who had been in love with Irene Pitt . |
| 15 | Of course she had been in love , for years and years , and perhaps , she sometimes wondered , that experience had spoiled her . |
| 16 | And Arianna had been in love with him , or at least , she 'd thought she was , until he 'd begun taking over her life . |