Example sentences of "she [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 2 | She had been clinging when she 'd been in Ven 's arms , she had to admit that , but then — she loved him . |
| 3 | She 'd been in Egypt 's capital Cairo and , along with seven other tourists , was travelling in a bus from to Assiut , a stronghold of the muslim fundamentalist group . |
| 4 | She 'd been in touch with Tim Dunton , of course . |
| 5 | Her own business needed her attention , but she 'd been in touch with her manager , and everything was under control . |
| 6 | She 'd been in front , but then the horse fell and seemed to land on top of her . |
| 7 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 8 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 9 | One night as she lay in bed with her husband , she heard ‘ a sound of melody so sweet and delectable , that she thought she had been in paradise ’ . |
| 10 | For a while she had been in paradise ; now it was over . |
| 11 | She felt that she had changed entirely since it was written , and chiefly during the three days since she had been in London . |
| 12 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
| 13 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 14 | She had been in love with Alexander . |
| 15 | She had projecting teeth and told everyone who would listen that she had been in love with Yorick since she was twelve . |
| 16 | Of course she had been in love , for years and years , and perhaps , she sometimes wondered , that experience had spoiled her . |
| 17 | A picture of her as she had been in life came up on the screen . |
| 18 | The answer to why she had felt neither violent revulsion nor nausea when she had been in Naylor Massingham 's arms evaded Leith . |
| 19 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 20 | It was only because his repeated invitations had made her think that maybe the young man did need the support of someone familiar that she had agreed to come to Lisbon — and because , after a hardworking summer , she had been in need of a break . |
| 21 | None of this mess was of her making , yet she was just as much a prisoner as if she had been in gaol like Clive . |
| 22 | There had obviously been something wrong with the Cashman ménage for some time — why else would Cindy Hill have lied about her whereabouts , telling her husband she had been in Wales when she had really been in a London nightclub ? |
| 23 | They had evidently been sent by Judith : she had been in control of the treasure they brought with them , and , interestingly , of Charles 's regalia . |
| 24 | Latterly , she had been in pain . |
| 25 | Emily , swimming vigorously , came to assist her , and together they managed to reach shallow water , where Gwendolen promptly denied she had been in danger . |
| 26 | Her eighteen-month jail sentence was reduced on appeal — but not before she had been in prison for six months . ) |
| 27 | In all the desperate , toiling years she had been in Canada , neither her husband nor her son had ever made themselves a meal , except on one or two occasions when illness had confined her to bed . |
| 28 | All her life , from as far back as she could remember , she had been in demand . |
| 29 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |