Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been the only one to be quietly expelled from the eminently respectable boarding school after being caught smoking cannabis . |
| 2 | So OK , she had n't been the best dinner companion in the world that evening , but she had n't asked him to take her out , he had asked her . |
| 3 | She had not been the first woman to offer him a smile during the past few hour . |
| 4 | She could not imagine that she had ever been the first person . |
| 5 | She had always been the great friend of Noreen 's and of Liam too in his young days . |
| 6 | She had always been the sensible , down-to-earth twin , yet here she was , going away with a man she had only known for two days . |