Example sentences of "she [vb past] [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flavia managed to recall that she had been asked to dinner and that the time was eight . |
| 2 | She had been bludgeoned to death with a champagne bottle by her husband David , 48 , who then killed himself . |
| 3 | It had been taken when she had been presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in the year . |
| 4 | Breeze sat as if she had been turned to stone . |
| 5 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
| 6 | She had been invited to dinner on Sunday evening by another member of her women 's group , and she had promised to take a pudding . |
| 7 | George told Geoffrey she had been engaged to Play Peter Pan in the next production . |
| 8 | Tony Nelson , defending , told Wirral magistrates David Roger Powney panicked when he heard she had been rushed to hospital . |
| 9 | She had been introduced to Norman Lamont ( very sexy ) and afterwards Charles had been wonderful , guiding her from cab to restaurant , steering her around the menu ( ‘ the salt cod is quite delicious ’ ) , plying her with Vinho Verde and a glass of Setubal . |
| 10 | The shock had been too much for her precarious hold on sanity and she had been removed to Rainhill Asylum in a strait jacket . |
| 11 | So , although she was aware of getting ‘ red ’ letters , she never realised that she had been taken to court . |
| 12 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 13 | She had been taken to Hastings Hospital and was now waiting for X-ray results . |
| 14 | By the time Sgt Smith 's widow , Doris , gave birth to a son , she had been evacuated to Bulford Army camp , on Salisbury Plain , in Wiltshire , a large , bleak area of chalk downland . |
| 15 | During seven years of illness she had been admitted to hospital 13 times , often compulsorily during episodes of violent behaviour when she was a danger both to her children and herself . |
| 16 | At one stage , in her early fifties , the depression had been so bad that she had been admitted to hospital . |
| 17 | John 's mother had been very ill over Christmas and over the New Year she had been admitted to hospital . |
| 18 | I heard them say that she had been brought to hospital because her belly was still full of urine . ’ |
| 19 | And if Emily had expected Craig to ride in on a white charger and save the day , she had been doomed to disappointment . |
| 20 | The first time this had happened to her , she had been scared to death . |
| 21 | She had been married to Nahum Morey for two years when the staid Mrs Deacon died of influenza . |
| 22 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 23 | She had been knifed to death . |
| 24 | The last thing she said was addressed to Bodie . |