Example sentences of "she had [been] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time .
2 She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing .
3 It was the first time she had been so near a man with sweet breath and the scent of success about him .
4 It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability .
5 She had been inside for a day .
6 He was too young to remember when it had been a school , though his mother could , she had been there as a pupil .
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