Example sentences of "she had been [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she kissed Auntie Lou on the cheek and said , ‘ Thank you , oh I do thank you , ’ and Auntie Lou smiled and blushed as if she had been given a present . |
| 2 | She had been given a chance of survival . |
| 3 | She had been given a telephone number in France : Cassis 08.79.30 , Les Roches Blanches , a hotel . |
| 4 | After all , she had been given a brain to think with while these patriots were being force-fed The Thoughts of Spiro Agnew , The World According to William F. Buckley and Killing Commies for God and Country . |
| 5 | She had been given a programme credit for making dresses several years before . |
| 6 | She had been born a male , but had later undergone sexual conversion surgery and had lived as a woman for eighteen years . |
| 7 | ‘ She is unwomanly , ’ Zurachina said , as if she anticipated his objections , ‘ and were it not for her beauty I would wish that she had been born a man . ’ |
| 8 | During the last few days she had been sent a poison pen letter , had her life turned upside down , and now she was in the arms of the man whom she had been absolutely determined to divorce . |
| 9 | As she was still at school , she had been assigned a tutor but this had stopped as they did not get on . |
| 10 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
| 11 | Even now that she had been made a director of the firm , Laura was well aware that it did n't mean that she had a job for life . |
| 12 | ‘ It is n't every man who approves of women having ambition , ’ Ashley remarked a touch cryptically — for when she had been made a director several of her male colleagues had found it very hard to handle . |
| 13 | She had been offered a job called ‘ copy chief at one of the agency 's clients on the strength of the work she had done for this client at the agency . |
| 14 | On the day her contract had been due to run out , 15 February , she had been offered a job as an enrolled nurse at Grantham . |
| 15 | Having opened with an 83 , Moodie yesterday returned a 78 in which she was cheered by the news from home that she had been awarded a golf scholarship at the University of Hawaii . |
| 16 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |