Example sentences of "she had [been] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article .
2 But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life .
3 I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me .
4 She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter :
5 Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals .
6 If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed .
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