Example sentences of "[pron] she 'd been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair . |
| 2 | It was as if her mind had split into two separate portions , Gina thought as with one part of it she listened attentively to the technical explanations and absorbed the aesthetic appearance of the system with approving eyes , her creative instincts stimulated with the challenge with which she 'd been bestowed . |
| 3 | ‘ Then she told me she 'd been offered a part in Jane Eyre at Warrington rep and did I think she ought to accept . |
| 4 | And then a few weeks ago she told me she 'd been invited to go and see him at his house or ‘ castle ’ as Blufton prefers to call it . ’ |
| 5 | While declaring undying love for me she 'd been busy making herself a small fortune giving kiss-and-tell interviews to some tabloid rag . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It seemed to me she 'd been worn down by leading a life she was n't fitted for . |
| 7 | She had genuinely meant to facilitate my exit from Dili ; at the time she 'd made her little speech to me she 'd been perfectly sincere . |
| 8 | That was a change from the senators and congressmen and captains of industry , whom she 'd been seducing since she arrived on these golden shores . |
| 9 | And she and she she 'd been out she would n't come out |
| 10 | She 'd replaced the receiver instantly and refused to tell him who she 'd been speaking to , but then , as now , there was something challenging in her expression . |
| 11 | Rohan , contrary to everything she 'd been led to believe , turning his back on La Tour Monchauzet . |
| 12 | It was something she 'd been wondering about . |
| 13 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 14 | When she changed schools , however , the maths A level course was different from the one she 'd been following at her old school , but the new teacher expected her to catch up immediately . |
| 15 | One lady , he claimed , almost lost her marbles when the word she picked out of the hat was the same as the one she 'd been handed 27,000 feet up a Himalayan mountain in her backpack and bivouac , far-out , cool-man days . |
| 16 | Suppose she came back now and told him she 'd been somewhere else ? |
| 17 | Flustered by his presence , thrown off balance by the feel of his hard body against her own , she suddenly clamped her mouth shut , horrified to realise she 'd almost told him she 'd been rushing to get to him . |
| 18 | The last time he 'd seen her she 'd been drunk , they 'd had a fight , he 'd left her sprawling on the carpet . |
| 19 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 20 | Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other . |
| 21 | Well , he told Mummy , and now she 's furious , because apparently it 's what she 'd been hoping for . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , I did , ’ said Kelly , surprised that he had n't grasped what she 'd been saying . |
| 23 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 24 | It was three times what she 'd been expecting . |
| 25 | I said that this was what she 'd been proposing , dummkopf , but Stuart was n't having any of it . |
| 26 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 27 | She nodded , as if this was what she 'd been expecting , and then she took what was probably her first real look at her surroundings . |
| 28 | The police had been convinced it was a genuine accident that took his life ( and that of his mistress ) but after what she 'd been through , after what she had discovered , Donna could not believe that men willing to kill for the possession of a book had not taken the life of the man she 'd loved . |
| 29 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 30 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |