Example sentences of "she [vb past] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 2 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 3 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 4 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She 'd been to three lectures . |
| 7 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 8 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 9 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 10 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 11 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 12 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 13 | She had been at one of the best State schools in England , where she would still be , no doubt , but for what Toby had heard referred to as an Incident . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 16 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 17 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 18 | She had been with fitzAlan and — |
| 19 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 20 | Well she had been on one or two things , not a lot on the television but er , we . |
| 21 | She had been to Nice countless times . |
| 22 | She had been to one of their meetings , and was even more confirmed not only in the conviction that they were right , but that her own group should get involved in trying to organise women to campaign for wages for housework . |
| 23 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 24 | She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’ |
| 25 | She had been to most of the early-morning markets as far as Hyères . |
| 26 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 27 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 28 | At first appraisal , Great Britain was , in 1914 , undisputed mistress of the seas , as she had been since 1805 when Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar . |
| 29 | She had been through enough already . |
| 30 | She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things . |