Example sentences of "she [verb] been [adj] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Already she has been able to list such exotic places as Mucky Lonnin , Swinsy and Never ‘ Eed Em Blacksmith .
2 She 'd been lucky to get this flat and at a reasonable price , for accommodation in Branchester was n't easy to find .
3 But maybe she 'd been wrong to accept this job , wrong to come .
4 She 'd been slow to see that , and tried to make up for it by saying quickly : ‘ Her jumping over ca n't have helped Eismark 's career . ’
5 Though , on reflection , she realised she 'd been silly to think that .
6 It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm .
7 It was an attitude she had encountered before admittedly — from people who assumed that because she had grown up in hotels , she had been able to enjoy all the comforts afforded to the customers .
8 For it had dawned upon her suddenly why she had been able to take such pure pleasure in the Lord Owen 's triumph , unspotted by any tincture of regret or sympathy for these humbled princes driven so ignominiously out of Wales at his hands .
9 Yet , the original idea having come from her mother , she had been able to heap all the blame on her , even to accusing her of using up her inheritance , and continually complaining of the ‘ pittance ’ that she must herself have laid down in the terms of the letter she had written , purporting to come from Lady Merchiston .
10 She had been able to tell that by the sight of his motorbike outside .
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