Example sentences of "she had [been] born " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where she had been born ? |
| 2 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 3 | If it was being pointed out to her that she had been born to a life of political responsibility and not simply pleasure by one member of the powerful and able house of Guise in France , the message was being reinforced from Scotland by another : her mother , Mary of Guise . |
| 4 | She had been born blind and her disability had enriched rather than restricted her life . |
| 5 | She had been born in 1688 in Marston St. Lawrence , and had married Richard Jennens of Mollington , Oxfordshire , in 1708 [ Baker , 1 , 720 ] . |
| 6 | Mrs Carr had good reason to take such a stance as she had been born without arms . |
| 7 | She had been born a male , but had later undergone sexual conversion surgery and had lived as a woman for eighteen years . |
| 8 | The case of Mary Ann Titford , née Parkes , is fairly typical in this respect : her grandchildren , still alive in the 1980s as this story is being written , remember her well , though she had been born as long ago as 1849 . |
| 9 | Briar Cottage no longer seemed like home ; like the cottage where eleven years earlier she had been born . |
| 10 | ‘ Mama never spoke of her family , insisting that she had been born an orphan , ’ Joan said , still unable to fully comprehend that she was not whom she had thought she was . |
| 11 | The three-room cottage where she had been born had lost its interest for Eve as her dislike of the Westwards had grown . |
| 12 | She wondered how much of what she had been born with was left . |
| 13 | She had been born to a life of violence , desperation and death , but she had never believed corpses could walk , manshaped creatures could endure for thousands of years , or that another person 's mind could leak into your own . |
| 14 | She wished she had been born into a different age , an age when women had been allowed to be more than a decorative possession . |
| 15 | Gertrude Joyce , at least , found it hard to accept that she was a foreigner in the town where she had been born and she had lived until she was over twenty-five years old . |
| 16 | She had been born in India , where her father was stationed with the Air Force , but after her parents separated she was brought up by her mother , who lived with another woman in Northampton . |
| 17 | She had been born ten years ago . |
| 18 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 19 | Nor was this surprising , for she had been born on the shortest day of the year , which is the sun 's birthday also . |
| 20 | He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul . |
| 21 | ‘ She is unwomanly , ’ Zurachina said , as if she anticipated his objections , ‘ and were it not for her beauty I would wish that she had been born a man . ’ |
| 22 | She had been born into the Normandy nobility , had connections at Court , and was appointed reader to the Empress Eugenie . |
| 23 | She must have done , she had been born in it . |
| 24 | She had been born in Edinburgh but only mad chance because I think that the family were only there a short time . |
| 25 | She knew now why she had been born , born for his love only . |
| 26 | She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life . |
| 27 | Yet Gemma had shown no more than a polite interest in Almsmead while Linnet , who was very dear but not Gemma , after all , had positively thrown herself into all the excitements of housebuilding and furnishing , taking to Far Flatley as if she had been born there . |
| 28 | She had been born in this apartment — in the bedroom that he slept in , maybe the very bed , she grinned — and she loved the place . |
| 29 | ‘ When can I see my father ? ’ she demanded , still staring out at the city she had been born in , and feeling waves of love for its brash life force , its moneyed pavements and its frantic race against time . |