Example sentences of "[verb] she [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Usher she had been top dog . |
| 2 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 3 | The new pleading , so far as relevant to the claim against the building society , constituted ( i ) a plea of non est factum based on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know she had been appointed attorney and did not know she was signing a transfer of the property ; ( ii ) a plea that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney . |
| 4 | He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened . |
| 5 | She must know she had been overheard . |
| 6 | Wendy Almon went to pick up two-year-old Eva , but found she 'd been abducted |
| 7 | Over the months Jay found she liked being around Lucy , enjoyed desiring her and doing nothing about it . |
| 8 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 9 | Police say she 'd been strangled . |
| 10 | Yeah , well what I think he , I think he will emulsion over it cos I mean the ceiling 's a bit , as you say she 'd been a smoker |
| 11 | By the time Chloe was rescued she 'd been horribly burned . |
| 12 | A MOTHER who returned home to find she had been burgled , collapsed and died minutes after the discovery . |
| 13 | Police and ambulancemen who rushed to Birmingham 's New Street station expected to find she had been killed . |
| 14 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 15 | They believed she had been murdered by the Grantley Ripper although as yet no body had turned up . |
| 16 | But the prosecution says she 'd been badly beaten around the head before she died . |
| 17 | She says she hated being cooped up at home , concocting his favourite tuna fish salad . |
| 18 | Mrs Bottomley says she loved being a backbencher , loved being a parliamentary secretary — first to one of her greatest fans , Chris Patten , and then to Sir Geoffrey Howe — and she loved being an Environment Minister . |
| 19 | As for HMS United she had been on station at the rendezvous ; but as it is barely possible to see a 10,000 tonner at 400 yards on a rough night there is little chance of seeing the recognition signals from a canoe when these torch or RG beams are a mere four feet ( just over a metre ) at arm 's length above the waves . |
| 20 | so she said what I 'll do she said is I 'll leave the key to the garage under two bricks at the side of the garage |
| 21 | I imagined she 'd been knifed , violated . |
| 22 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 23 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 24 | His talk about not wanting her had been nonsense , stuff handed out by a man salvaging a bruised ego . |
| 25 | She did n't like the sound of the ‘ second skin' bit at all , and the way he had kidnapped her had been terrifying . |
| 26 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 27 | The cop who 'd collected her had been a crowd control unit , the full cyborg . |
| 28 | The first time he 'd seen her had been at Dave 's , and Dave had kept a possessive arm round her all evening , warning others away . |
| 29 | But he should have realised she 'd been carried away by the atmosphere , and the unexpected potency of the aquavit . |
| 30 | She let out the breath she had n't even realised she 'd been holding . |