Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently she 's been off all week . |
| 2 | Huy wondered how long she had been in the capital , and how she had got there . |
| 3 | Or perhaps she had been in too much of a hurry to change . |
| 4 | She mentioned tonight she 's been at work every day mind you . |
| 5 | But already she had been to the zoo with him and accepted an invitation for future visits . |
| 6 | She realised how close she had been to the edge when the Yggdrasil bit came for her . |
| 7 | She stopped , embarrassed suddenly , looked down , realised with a start just how close she had been to revealing some parts of her life , her thoughts … |
| 8 | She closed her book ; her papa had given it to her before she left for England and she blushed a little on remembering how short she had been with him when he had handed it over to her . |
| 9 | Off she 's been at nights ; could n't get in quick enough and could n't get out quick enough . |
| 10 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 11 | A long time ago , she 'd learned just how dear she 'd been to Ewan Famber : an experiment . |
| 12 | How wrong she had been about not needing it . |
| 13 | She had been right in her suspicion that David 's return had been something to do with a woman , but how wrong she had been over the reason . |
| 14 | Well she had been on one or two things , not a lot on the television but er , we . |
| 15 | Half an hour ago she had been in a heaven of love with the enraged man before her . |
| 16 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 17 | Perhaps Eve knew all the time , maybe she had been in the shop when Mother was buying all this … all this horrible stuff . |
| 18 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 19 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 20 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 21 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 22 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 23 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 24 | Mrs Grant has decided to stand down from HIE , where she has been on the board since its inception two years ago , because of increasing work commitments . |