Example sentences of "she [vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recipe she used was taken from the WI Book of Bread and Buns . |
| 2 | Alina said she 'd been raised in the country . |
| 3 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 4 | She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch . |
| 5 | She 'd been moved from the uninspiring cupboard allocated to her by Stephanie on her arrival . |
| 6 | She 'd been elected to the National Executive Committee and she stood up , said how pleased she was , and then said , ‘ But now I have to take the bucket round for a collection because that 's what I always do … ’ and I just thought , ‘ How wonderful ’ . |
| 7 | Jahsaxa flinched with annoyance when she realised she 'd been connected with the Roirbak answering machine again . |
| 8 | Nine hours after she 'd been bundled into the room , they unceremoniously dumped Adam in with her . |
| 9 | Her words sliced through Shannon like burning arrows , but only a faint staining of her cheeks showed she 'd been affected in the slightest . |
| 10 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 11 | Dot was glad she 'd been warned by the dancing man because there was no warning from Gloria . |
| 12 | Lady Laetitia had forgotten all she 'd been taught in the morning and everything had to be rehearsed again . |
| 13 | Judith had once confided that she too had an uncertain grasp of the past , though she 'd been drunk at the time , and had denied it vehemently when he 'd raised the subject again . |
| 14 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 15 | Rory jumped as though she 'd been shot at the sound of the lazily amused voice materialising apparently out of nowhere . |
| 16 | She apologised , over the phone , the next day ; she 'd been hiding under the bedclothes , playing her favourite David Bowie cassette at maximum volume on her Sony Walkman , trying to drown the noise of the thunder . |
| 17 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |
| 18 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 19 | A post-mortem examination at the time showed she 'd been hit on the head with a blunt instrument . |
| 20 | Zambia felt as if SHe 'd been punched in the gut . |
| 21 | Although she 'd been enchanted by the boisterous reunions , her attention was immediately arrested by the man 's striking colouring . |
| 22 | It seemed as bright as day out on the newly-laid forecourt and it was as if she 'd been caught by the lights , trapped and dazed like a rabbit on a long country road . |
| 23 | Well okay , that was a time she 'd been camping in the Lake District , Mrs did . |
| 24 | And was it any wonder she 'd fled , if she 'd been subjected to the same bullying and threats by an earlier generation of de Rocheforts ? |
| 25 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 26 | She 'd been driving along the A420 Oxford to Swindon road at Pusey woods , when she was hit head-on by a stolen Vauxhall Cavalier . |
| 27 | She , she 'd been told by the Reeds that |
| 28 | ‘ It was in the paper that she 'd been taken from the harbour . |
| 29 | She 'd been sitting on the edge of the bed when they 'd arrived , two large uniformed men . |
| 30 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |