Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the main sitting room where she had been at first she was introduced to Antonietta 's husband Gennaro who was the head of the household . |
| 2 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 3 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 4 | Frances has been fostering animals at Freshfield Animal Rescue Centre near her home even longer than she 's been at Ashworth . |
| 5 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 6 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
| 7 | If she had been at court the young dandies would have written odes and sonnets to her eyebrows , her finger nails and her sweet rose mouth . |
| 8 | It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day . |
| 9 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 10 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 11 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 12 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 13 | When she had been at art college , but that was just kids hunting for trophies , and they had n't meant a toss to her . |
| 14 | When she had been at college she had socialised in plenty and had had her fair share of boyfriends , Ashley reflected , as they drove along , but since then her energies had been single-mindedly channelled into her career . |
| 15 | when she 's been at the school gate , she comes |
| 16 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 17 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 18 | Sophie looked almost as surprised as she had been at Helen 's news . |
| 19 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |