Example sentences of "she had [been] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time .
2 Sophie looked almost as surprised as she had been at Helen 's news .
3 She had been to Babylon , and come back .
4 She had been to Oxford .
5 She had been to London once before only , and now she was going to Paris .
6 She had been to Italy on a coach tour , and the Italian men could n't control themselves she said .
7 She confirmed she had been to Hawaii with the hunk and said : ‘ We all had a laugh , that 's all .
8 Since Georgina denied that she had been to Miller 's End since Christmas , and to the woods behind the cottage since the previous autumn , the forensic evidence clinched the case against her .
9 Her distress was evident to Nicandra , who felt nearly as embarrassed by Dada 's miserable driving as she had been by Aunt Tossie 's disgraceful exhibition .
10 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 .
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 The answer to why she had felt neither violent revulsion nor nausea when she had been in Naylor Massingham 's arms evaded Leith .
14 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 ?
15 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 .
16 In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home .
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