Example sentences of "[that] she [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sunk so low that she had been obliged to approach Dr McNab for his help . |
| 2 | THE woman who left her 11-year-old daughter alone in a London flat while she went on holiday to Spain denied last night that she had been heartless or wicked . |
| 3 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 4 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 5 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |
| 6 | As she looked at her niece 's radiant face , Louise felt sure that she had been right to approach Monsieur de Levantiére . |
| 7 | Writing it reinforced her conviction that she had been right to stay in Florence . |
| 8 | Rourke had made no move to contact her after she had left the office yesterday morning , and that had to mean that she had been right in her assumptions . |
| 9 | Well , now that she was no longer there , he would have to pay attention ; would know that she had been serious . |
| 10 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 11 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She told me that she had been present when Balbinder was tested by the educational psychologist . |
| 14 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 15 | Davies added that she had been present at a phone conversation in December when Doyle had assured one of the players that all $300,000 of the prizemoney was ‘ in the bank . ’ |
| 16 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 17 | There was nothing in the cast of her features to suggest that she had been alarmed or frightened at the moment of her death . |
| 18 | Congratulations to Sharon Doolan , Reprographics Unit , who learned recently that she had been successful in gaining two further Scotvec modules in photography . |
| 19 | She wore a large dressing over one eye and her hands were daubed with gentian violet , but she insisted that she had been lucky . |
| 20 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 21 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |
| 22 | She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent . |
| 23 | Obviously some misshapen warped creation like Alex ; shame flushed heat all through her that she had been willing to give herself to some disgusting pervert . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Frankly , it had amazed him that she had been able to ride at all that afternoon , given how wasted she was the previous night , but then she was quite a determined little thing . |
| 26 | She wished that she had been able to spot him in the crowd . |
| 27 | They drove back to Slane , completely in charity — Ellie pleased that she had been able to help , Mrs McMahon delighted that she would n't , after all , look a fright . |
| 28 | It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'll need wood for a fire , ’ returned Isabel with aplomb , not about to admit that she had been worried about him . |
| 30 | I did , despite the fact that she had been unfaithful . |