Example sentences of "she [verb] been by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 2 | He 'd been no more than another face around the yard on the two or three occasions that she 'd been by , no reason that he should have made any lasting impression on her at all . |
| 3 | The tiles around Virginia 's bedroom fire-place , with the central motif of sailing boat and lighthouse , were designed especially by Vanessa , moved as she had been by her sister 's novel , To the Lighthouse , which memorialised their childhood summers at St Ives in Cornwall . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 6 | For some reason she was more stricken by the loss of the letters than she had been by the news of John 's and Angela 's deaths . |