Example sentences of "that her [noun] had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Emily knew that her friend had been manipulative , she wondered whether she herself had been selfish , and should have forgotten about the loan . |
| 2 | ‘ I wonder who you truly are ? ’ he queried in the same soft voice that proved that her thoughts had been correct . |
| 3 | Why was he insisting that her behaviour had been dishonourable ? |
| 4 | Now that she had calmed down it was very clear to her that her actions had been rash , to say the least . |
| 5 | She told me that her parents had been kind and loving and that , when her two younger brothers were born after the war , she had got on with them quite well apart from the normal childish disagreements . |
| 6 | Though she clearly had made him angry , Constance knew that her decision had been right . |
| 7 | It came almost as a shock to realize that her night had been peaceful — there had been no dreams , no nightmares , and the bottle by her bed remained untouched . |
| 8 | Ianthe was sure it must mean that her uncle had been unable to come-for some comparatively harmless reason- and that there was to be no service that evening . |
| 9 | He had n't noticed before just how thin she was , and that night it was obvious that her maid had been over-generous with the rouge-brush . |
| 10 | Bronwen explained that her son had been difficult from day one , crying most of the day and night , demanding constant attention . |
| 11 | When Vera Czermak found that her husband had been unfaithful , her first thought was to throw herself out of the window of their third-floor flat in Prague and put an end to her misery . |
| 12 | It seemed that her brother had been right after all when he warned her that the Decoy Lodge was haunted . |
| 13 | She had learned when she had held the first costume up against her , that her mother had been small , hardly , it seemed , an inch or two taller than Ellie was now . |