Example sentences of "she [vb past] been [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since they 'd first become friends she 'd been obsessed with Shannon 's love-life , or rather the lack of it . |
| 2 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 3 | She 'd been involved with fairs and circuses since the age of fourteen , when she 'd run off with a Wall of Death rider on his motorbike . |
| 4 | Yes , she 'd been worried about Nicolo 's intentions , but he 'd gone out of his way to tell her — to show her — that he was n't the least bit interested in her as a woman . |
| 5 | She had been mean with money all her life , using her daughter and granddaughter as servants , and even herself at times during the last seven or so years as unhired help , except for the time that Rosie was here . |
| 6 | After all , just because she had been unaccompanied at Emma 's house , just because she had accepted his invitation to dinner , did not mean that she was unattached . |
| 7 | She had been right about Short ; the way to get him to listen was to treat him as if he were a human being , which he clearly was n't . |
| 8 | So she had been right about Rebecca after all , she thought as they walked back towards the main part of the house . |
| 9 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 10 | She had been good at art at school and , had the war not come , she might have tried to make a career out of it . |
| 11 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 12 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 13 | Had he not been she might have telephoned him instead of Nick , when she had been desperate for company . |
| 14 | After putting a trial foot several times in the river , Harriet launched herself and swam as if she had been used to water all her life . |
| 15 | She had been shocked by Maria Luisa 's tragic countenance at the window but this was so much worse . |
| 16 | Unknown to them , she had been one of Tiller 's favourite leading ladies around 1906 , but when the work offers stopped she faced the same bleak future confronting all dancers who feel too old to dance . |
| 17 | A faint , ironic smile played about her mouth as she allowed herself , just for a minute , to imagine what the weekend could have held if she had been one of Dane 's legion of devoted followers . |
| 18 | She had been one of WTN 's best newsdesk assistants , extremely well-liked , very bright and good at the job , one of the busiest in the news room . |
| 19 | Throughout her life , she had been grateful to Somerville for teaching her to think and to write . |
| 20 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 21 | He saw that in the last few seconds , she had been overcome with exhaustion . |
| 22 | She had been aware of poverty in the Third World . |
| 23 | Though she had been angry with fitzAlan , she would not have blurted out the bare facts to just anyone . |
| 24 | She had been angry with Nick because she hated herself but that was n't his fault . |
| 25 | In those days , too , she had been afraid of Gareth Davis , but her fear had been tinged with an awareness of his overt masculinity . |
| 26 | But she had been fond of Moira , and guessed how much anguish the rift in the family must have caused her . |
| 27 | She had been fond of Arnie . |
| 28 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |
| 29 | Ever since childhood , while talking to the very old , she had been frightened by visions of herself attacking , hitting , assaulting , knocking off their glasses . |
| 30 | And what monumental arrogance — to think that an evening in his company would be enough to wean her away from Rob — that was if she had been interested in Rob in the first place ! |