Example sentences of "and she [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 'd been blind positive he 'd ask her out . |
| 2 | She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it . |
| 3 | She knew that I 'd have to keep Dawn in my bedroom to start with , and she 'd been beginning to have second thoughts about letting me do that . |
| 4 | He had visited the studio on and off through his time with Vanessa — he 'd even met Martine there on two occasions when her husband had cancelled a Luxembourg trip and she 'd been too heated to miss a liaison — but it was charmless and cheerless , and he 'd returned happily to the house in Wimpole Mews . |
| 5 | She was alive ; and she 'd been here before , in this shadowy glade with the dark pool . |
| 6 | There had been ‘ complications ’ and she 'd been told she could n't have children . |
| 7 | She feared often that it might not fill the House , but it was true and strong and she 'd been told it was pleasing . |
| 8 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 9 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 10 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 11 | Her mum would never had done anything so untidy or indiscreet , and she 'd been a Tory all her life . |
| 12 | And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about . |
| 13 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 14 | Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples . |
| 15 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 16 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 17 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 18 | And she 'd been charmed with Bergerac itself . |
| 19 | And she 'd been too stupid , too besotted to realise — until now . |
| 20 | Although the threat of having to meet Rohan had been removed , the wedding was still going to be an ordeal for her , and she 'd been sorely tempted to plead sudden illness and stay away from the actual ceremony and celebrations . |
| 21 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |
| 22 | And she 'd been glumly aware that her quick retort , ‘ I 'm not — I just felt a bit cold for a moment , ’ had sounded remarkably unconvincing . |
| 23 | And now David did n't want any part of it , and she 'd been so looking forward to their sharing in the discoveries . |
| 24 | And she 'd been right about the red roses . |
| 25 | And she 'd been nicknamed ‘ Scatty ’ because of a habit of daydreaming her way through the mundane bits of life . |
| 26 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 27 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 28 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 29 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 30 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |