Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 2 | The only card she held was her disguise . |
| 3 | His voice was thickly clogged with some primitive emotion she assumed was rage . |
| 4 | The surge of undefinable emotion she experienced was almost paralysing . |
| 5 | At one point the mistress of disguise demonstrated to her co-accused how the ginger wig she had been wearing when they were stopped by police , fell off as she adjusted her hat . |
| 6 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 7 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
| 8 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 9 | With this firmly decided , she made her way up to change out of the trousers and sweater she had been wearing all that long day . |
| 10 | Durance said to Rain : ‘ I ca n't believe Joseph does n't understand that selling under her name a painting recognizable as a Durance is equivalent to telling a journalist she had been painting my pictures . |
| 11 | Odette Smith 's long and sometimes painful struggle to reach the weight she wanted is one that a lot of women ( and men ) will sympathise with . |
| 12 | At the onset she had been referred to a surgeon and had a normal barium enema and chest x ray . |
| 13 | She spoke Spanish a little , enough to understand what was going on , although at her interview she had been told that all her patients would be British . |
| 14 | Having lent Hale money to pay her rent she had been angered to discover her spending enormous sums on an haute-couture dress , and refused to turn up to what , in retrospect , became Hale 's farewell party . |
| 15 | On a week 's package holiday at the time , the first break she had been able to afford since leaving drama school , it had taken her all of five minutes to make up her mind to stay . |
| 16 | Valerie Cass made an elaborate gesture , reminding Charles once again what a bad actress she had been . |
| 17 | They crossed M Street and kept going and in a doorway she snatched off the wig and beret and rammed them into the shoulder bag that had been expanded from the purse she had been carrying before . |
| 18 | Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous . |
| 19 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 20 | She opened a small peacock-blue fan she had been holding and began to fan herself . |
| 21 | The pleasure she had been feeling turned sour , and she pushed him away . |
| 22 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
| 23 | Bernice quickly unrolled the bundle she 'd been carrying beneath her arm and thrust Ace 's blood-soaked jacket into the Doctor 's hands . |
| 24 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 25 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 26 | The bold make-up she affected was all wrong today ; it hid nothing , and accentuated the harsher signs of ageing . |
| 27 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 28 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 29 | The one battle she lost was over the dog , Hector . |
| 30 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |