Example sentences of "she had been [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Her niece told me that she had been particularly good at her job . ) |
| 2 | She had been rather grateful to him at the time . |
| 3 | She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane . |
| 4 | She had been coldly beautiful until the day she died , but nothing had brought her happiness . |
| 5 | Constance remembered the many times she had seen her mother and him alone together either in the village street or at home ; she had been uneasily aware of their absorption in each other . |
| 6 | It seems to be almost a perception of physics as an ‘ arts ’ subject ; indeed , Jane told me that she had been equally good at arts and sciences but had chosen sciences because of the job and university prospects . |
| 7 | Twenty-four hours ago she had been barely aware of his existence ; now he seemed to be taking over her life ! |
| 8 | She had been nearly speechless from seeing him so unexpectedly , and was a mass of agitation inside at what he was about to say . |
| 9 | She had been completely open about testing the waters as far as a change of job was concerned . |
| 10 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 11 | It seemed an age before he returned , and all that time she had been painfully aware of the blaze in her inflamed hind-quarters . |
| 12 | He thought that she had been exceptionally sweet to Emmie lately and he was grateful to her . |
| 13 | She had been utterly secure in her position as the only girl in the Wilson family and now there was another one . |
| 14 | She had been less fortunate with the driver , who was not at all sure of the route to the Hook and had to rely on friendly passers-by to give directions . |
| 15 | If only she had been less direct in her approach , he might have managed something . |
| 16 | Grandmother Gertler had been grateful to her family , but she had been less unequivocal in her thankfulness to God . |
| 17 | For several years she had been almost obsessed by Peter Sebastian , not only by his work , she finally admitted , but by the man himself . |
| 18 | Until then , colleagues and readers thought she had been happily married to the man she always referred affectionately to as Proopsie . |
| 19 | Harper 's own wife would need more than a few such compliments when he reached home , for she had been adamantly opposed to her husband travelling to Brussels . |
| 20 | Her parents had been warm and affectionate people and , as far as she could remember , she had been quite happy as a child . |
| 21 | When I asked her how easy or difficult she had found the exercise , Sylvia told me that she had been quite surprised at how simple it had been . |
| 22 | She had a job , a house and enough money to live fairly well ; in fact she had been quite surprised at the amount of money her mother had left her . |
| 23 | She had been quite unprepared for his beauty and his otherness . |
| 24 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
| 25 | She had been deeply conscious of her position as a canon 's widow . |
| 26 | Yet she knew it was there , in the background , darkening all her thoughts , rendering her sleepless in the nights following their departure and also confirming something of which she had been dimly aware for a long time . |
| 27 | She had been so long without a woman friend . |
| 28 | She had been so sure of his intentions . |
| 29 | She had been so close to her mother it was as though part of her self had died . |
| 30 | What could she say to someone she had been so close to , had spoken so bitterly to ? |