Example sentences of "she [vb past] [been] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 2 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 3 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 4 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |