Example sentences of "[that] she had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall . |
| 2 | One girl said that she had been unable to breathe , and was only able to do so when she covered her face with a pillow . |
| 3 | He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car . |
| 4 | She was quite attractive except for a very nasty skin condition , her face and arms were covered with a large number of pustules and it was obvious that she had been scratching them ; the scratch-marks were bleeding slightly . |
| 5 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 6 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 7 | Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions . |
| 8 | Madeleine replied with the news that she had been promoted and was moving to a town not twenty miles away . |
| 9 | Doctor Staples had examined her carefully , then called for cannula and trocar and performer the aspiration that she had been assured would never again be necessary . |
| 10 | Francesca 's much publicized affair with Senator Michael O'Brien was the reason that she had been sent home rather early from a tour of duty in the Embassy in Washington , over a year previously , just before he had met her in London . |
| 11 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 12 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 13 | Catherine sounded suddenly exhausted , and as she gave him back the cup she turned towards him , letting him see that she had been crying , but without looking him in the face . |
| 14 | McLeish , who remembered that she had been left £200,000 outright , received this as further evidence that the young woman had gone into a massive sulk after her uncle 's unexpected death . |
| 15 | After some spirited discussion Margaret agreed with the policy but pointed out with some feeling that she had been in the chair of every meeting of the Economic Committee throughout the Falklands crisis . |
| 16 | It was in this way that my friend confided in me when she dreamed , with great clarity , that she had been present at her own funeral gathering . |
| 17 | But when she announced in a maddeningly off-hand way that she had been deputed to look after him while Clarissa was away , she got another very swift question indeed . |
| 18 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 19 | He knew he had to turn his back on Crevecoeur , dreading the day he would see physical signs that SHe had been working . |
| 20 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |
| 21 | If it was being pointed out to her that she had been born to a life of political responsibility and not simply pleasure by one member of the powerful and able house of Guise in France , the message was being reinforced from Scotland by another : her mother , Mary of Guise . |
| 22 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 23 | She pulled off the scarf that she had been wearing round her head to protect her ears and prevent her hair getting into her eyes and mouth . |
| 24 | Having opened with an 83 , Moodie yesterday returned a 78 in which she was cheered by the news from home that she had been awarded a golf scholarship at the University of Hawaii . |
| 25 | My billetor Mrs Webster told me that she had been employed there before her marriage and ‘ printed registered envelopes in two sizes for ten years , and liked the work ’ . |
| 26 | Six weeks later she reported back that she had been very well on holiday with no travel-sickness or stomach problems but since returning home the digestive symptoms had gradually increased in intensity . |
| 27 | Daughter of King Jerome , former ruler of Westphalia during the First Empire , Mathilde had eventually married Count Anatole Demidov , a Russian multi-millionaire whose morals and behaviour were such ( he frequently beat her ) that she had been separated from him . |
| 28 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 29 | When the letter arrived telling her that she had been accepted to read History of Art , she shouted ‘ Hooray ! ’ and flung her arms around her brother , then burst into uncontrollable tears of relief . |
| 30 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |