Example sentences of "she had been [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 2 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |
| 3 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 4 | She had been born in this apartment — in the bedroom that he slept in , maybe the very bed , she grinned — and she loved the place . |
| 5 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 6 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 7 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 8 | She had been swopped with another baby 13 years before in a tragic hospital blunder . |
| 9 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 10 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 11 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |
| 12 | Besides , she had been caught like that by a man once before . |
| 13 | Even after she had been caught in that ruined church with Ginger Higby , that old bitch of a commandant in the women 's ambulance service had n't wanted to lose her . |
| 14 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 15 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 16 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 17 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |
| 18 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 19 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 20 | She had thought her daughter was pure and good , and she had been gratified by that . |
| 21 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
| 22 | She had been guaranteed by several people and entered Michael Hall School . |