Example sentences of "she had be [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She had been diagnosed as dangerous five years before she first struck .
2 She had been beaten and strangled and died from multiple injuries and asphyxia .
3 Here , every autumn since her childhood , she had been moved and pleased by the sight of cyclamen growing low and lavish in the leafmould under the copper beech where the driveway forked , left and right .
4 She had been determined that this baby would be hers .
5 She spoke Spanish a little , enough to understand what was going on , although at her interview she had been told that all her patients would be British .
6 She had allowed him to entice her into what was , to him , nothing more than a seduction scene , where she had been primed and ripe for the taking .
7 By December 1990 she had been described as psychotic by a doctor in the Sheriff Court .
8 The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that .
9 She had been advised that gentle exercise was good .
10 Grainne had once seen the massive Silver Looms that the sorcerers of Tara spun their enchantments on , and she had been awed and terrified and overwhelmed .
11 Little by little everything that was most English about her had been eroded and all she had left of it was her honesty , her natural courtesy and a slight reserve she could not entirely eliminate .
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