Example sentences of "she had been an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the beginning — and it had felt like the beginning although he was past thirty when they met — she had been an art student falling out of love with a young man on her course . |
| 2 | Her name was Avavnuk ; she had been an Eskimo in her life . |
| 3 | At the same time , he knew that , while he had been living in Canada , she had been an activist for a period with the WLAA and had been outspoken on occasions such as the meeting of the deputation with Whitelaw and the television debates . |
| 4 | Jacqueline would later say she had been an alcoholic since she was fourteen . |
| 5 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 6 | He suspected that she had been an embarrassment to the authorities and that , in the conditions which then prevailed , what mattered was whether they wished to have such a person interned and not whether she had been subversive . |
| 7 | She had been an imbecile and deserved nothing more kind . |
| 8 | If she had been an adult the position would have been different . |
| 9 | A native of Los Angeles , she had been an exporter of craft goods from Lima when , on a short trip to the jungle , her plane was grounded at Puerto Maldonaldo for two weeks . |
| 10 | She had been an actress in a northern repertory company and missed the life : she was as bored as I was . |
| 11 | That would have caused outrage if she had been an infant , since Zuwaya do not slap other people 's children . |