Example sentences of "time she [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time she had been to the office she had been confined in a poky little interview room near the editor 's office , but she hoped to avoid that fate this time . |
| 2 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 3 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 4 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 5 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 6 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 7 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 8 | It was the first time she had been into the city since that awful night of the cockfight back in February . |
| 9 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 10 | All the time she had been in the house . |
| 11 | In the short time she had been in the City , she had been propositioned by a well-dressed lush , witnessed a gangland execution and been pursued through a deserted subway station by a bulky killer . |
| 12 | She did n't remember anything like this the last time she 'd been on Earth . |
| 13 | ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nothing she 'd care to trust too far , but it made the atmosphere a lot easier than the last time she 'd been in here with the door closed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Bill Service , Personnel Manager states ‘ In all the time she has been in the Mill , she was never late of absent until February 1987 when she unfortunately slipped while coming to work and sustained a dislocated elbow . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The number of times we 've made it up with her after falling out because of her trouble making , and in no time she 's been at it again . |