Example sentences of "she had been [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist … |
| 2 | In any case , even if she had been a skilled charmer it was not possible to allure somebody who slashed back at you like a master swordsman and drove the point in . |
| 3 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 4 | She had been a battered baby , grew up in a succession of foster homes , and then married a man who regularly beat her up . |
| 5 | He held her against him , nursing her as though she had been a small child , while looking down into her face . |
| 6 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 7 | ‘ She had been a lifelong friend of the Abrams , ’ Mr Burke said . |
| 8 | When she had been a tiny child , and Fenna had still been a small , manageable and undemanding dragon she had , often spoken of him , to her mother who had grinned , to her grandmother who had smiled , and to her schoolteachers and friends , who had laughed indulgently . |
| 9 | Her senior by fourteen years , she had been a splendid nursemaid and even after marriage , while rearing her own family , Edna had still managed to do part-time cleaning and a weekly wash in the Tremayne household . |
| 10 | Personally , I think it was a merciful release both for my aunt and for my Uncle Félix , seeing that she had been a helpless invalid for so long . |
| 11 | Just as she had been a conscientious dancer , she now became an equally conscientious needlewoman . |
| 12 | Still , she thought , bracing her shoulders , if she had been a real mother she would have had to endure many such problems with a teenage daughter . |
| 13 | She had been a major influence in my life , and helped me through the rough patches . |
| 14 | A case of gamekeeper turned poacher , given that she had been a fast-stream entrant to the Treasury , much of whose function it is to resist that sort of demand . ’ |
| 15 | She had been a loyal colleague for many years , respected by parents and children alike , and since the accident had proved a trusted friend and companion . |
| 16 | She had been a clerk-receptionist phone-answerer-teamaker and she had got the job through her uncle Bob who was as near to being a friend of Thomas Walby 's as it was possible to be . |
| 17 | Sad thing was she had been a noted dancer in her day . |
| 18 | She had been a former child actress , making her film debut at the age of four , and at twelve she appeared in the London production of The Sound of Music . |
| 19 | She had been a good wife , too . |
| 20 | She had been a good companion ; she did not deserve this from him . |
| 21 | She had been a good woman . |
| 22 | Behavioural precursors of schizophrenia included a poor emotional rapport in the psychiatric interview , and parental observations that he or she had been a passive baby , with a short attention span in childhood , and often impolite behaviour , while school reports often noted that the child was isolated , uneasy about criticism , easily upset , and disturbed the class ( Parnas et al. , 1982 ) . |
| 23 | She had been a little brick , Doreen . |
| 24 | She had been a little waif then , in her Yorkshire homespun . |
| 25 | She had been a top model — her legs alone were insured for a five figure sum and he had enough hanging on him to bankrupt a smaller company . |
| 26 | Dana told me she had been a tougher nut for Daine to crack , and had had her mind scrambled and unscrambled several times . |
| 27 | She had been a true sister to Ryan . |
| 28 | Left wing Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside from 1974–87 , she had been a senior officer in the agricultural workers union and was chair for eight years of the Campaign Group of Labour Mps . |
| 29 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 30 | It turned out that she and her husband were experts on reincarnation and ran a sort of reincarnation centre in Switzerland and she had been an Egyptian princess — before , you know — and written books about it . |