Example sentences of "she [vb past] [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God knows where she 'd been last night . ’ |
| 2 | SHe 'd been entertaining Nathan in Tammuz 's office , messing with the computer . |
| 3 | While declaring undying love for me she 'd been busy making herself a small fortune giving kiss-and-tell interviews to some tabloid rag . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd been surprised Carol had offered to ice it , for Carol had never been domesticated . |
| 5 | She had been six years old then and she had thought the fireworks the most beautiful sight in the world . |
| 6 | She did n't want to understand him , but heated recognition rippled through her as she stared at his mouth , as unwillingly fascinated by its sensual curve as she had been six years ago , when all her breathlessly adored heroes had suddenly become prosaic and petty with the advent of the man from Hong Kong . |
| 7 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 8 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 9 | This time she announced it was n't Mrs Brown 's four calling birds three French hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree she had been five gold rings . |
| 10 | What had Julius seen in the nineteen-year-old girl she had been five years ago that had made him want to grab her and marry her , without even really knowing her ? |
| 11 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 12 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 13 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 14 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 15 | She had been eight years old and that was sixteen years ago . |
| 16 | Old enough to take care of himself , while she had been eight years old . |
| 17 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 18 | She had been fiery Sally-Anne still , and then fiery McAllister , and a few moments ' loving from a man she loved had undone her , had brought her not joy , but a trauma of the remembered pain and anguish which Havvie had inflicted on her . |
| 19 | She had been second housemaid at Chesney Hall and Arthur Naulls had been under-gardener . |
| 20 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 21 | She had immediately closed her mind to all thought , not even realising how tightly she had been gripping fitzAlan 's hand . |
| 22 | At Usher she had been top dog . |
| 23 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 24 | For Soho was where she had been last evening , wondering what to do and where to go to fill the time ; there , in Shaftesbury Avenue , she had seen Lucinda and the airmen . |