Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never really been interested in boys , or going out much . |
| 2 | She had n't even been nervous on the first night , not in the way other people were nervous . |
| 3 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 4 | She had n't even been aware that the show had a programme , other than the stuff they put on the show board in the foyer . |
| 5 | She had n't even been aware of gnawing on her abused lip . |
| 6 | Something was wrong , but she had n't quite been able to put her finger on it . |
| 7 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 8 | She knew that she had never been an intellectual , but she thought that she had probably once been capable of insight . |
| 9 | Their vulnerability was like a gaping hole in the cloak of professionalism she had always otherwise been able to build around her . |
| 10 | The only survivor I interviewed who had not married and who had always worked , told me that she had only once been unemployed , for a period of 6 months , when she got a temporary job selling insurance . |