Example sentences of "she [vb past] [been] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been upset by that . |
| 2 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 3 | But what if she 'd been wrong in that — what if there were other things he wanted to do ? |
| 4 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 5 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 6 | The storeroom ( yes , she had been right about that after all ) was not very big and not very well lit . |
| 7 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 8 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 9 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 10 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 11 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 12 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 13 | She was not going to fall in love with him , but even as she said this vehemently to herself , Sara was afraid that she had already gone over the precipice she had been conscious of this morning . |
| 14 | She had been precious to each of them . |
| 15 | What she never admitted was that in the beginning , she had been terrified of this new mode of travel and the first few miles had been passed with her eyes tightly closed and her lips moving in prayer . |
| 16 | And she had been pretty on that slab , all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out . |
| 17 | She had thought he would be happy about Mrs Gotobed 's message because she would have been , but she had been wrong about that . |