Example sentences of "she [vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been waylaid within ten feet of the front door , which did n't surprise me , by a chinless wonder in a baggy suit and powder blue trainers ( nobody wears trainers with a suit any more ) . |
| 2 | She even managed to convince the man that she 'd been sent by Roman to inspect the goods . |
| 3 | The touch of his hands on her back that afternoon … she 'd been gripped by such a war of reaction inside her . |
| 4 | Mina said Gustav said she 'd been killed by Allied planes . |
| 5 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 6 | well I think Dawn is quite happy now , I mean I think she felt as though she 'd been rushed at first , but I mean |
| 7 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 8 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 9 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 10 | Even now , of course , her mother would deny that she 'd been driven by physical needs — she still insisted on living the lie that hers had been a love-story doomed to disaster . |
| 11 | She 'd been married in that hat . |
| 12 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 13 | He said she 'd been raped at 18 by a Lebanese man in London . |
| 14 | Oxford Crown Court heard today that she 'd been subjected to repeated indecent assaults by her mother 's ex-boyfriend at their home in the Wantage area between 1985 and 1987 . |
| 15 | she 'd been put on that file — ‘ just by mistake ’ , |
| 16 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 17 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 18 | She 'd been found at last . |
| 19 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 20 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 21 | She had been indicted on numerous corruption charges since her return to the Philippines , as the government continued to attempt to recover some of the millions of dollars which she and her husband allegedly looted from the country during their years in power . |
| 22 | There were stories that she had been eaten by wild animals , but John Ward did n't believe it . |
| 23 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 24 | She said she had been threatened with hundreds of pickets if she did not reinstate Miss Owen . |
| 25 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 26 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |
| 27 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 28 | She had been flying for twelve years , had studied with her father who flew Concorde as a senior British Airways captain , and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday . |
| 29 | Miss Lowe had become very ill , her blood sugar level had fallen so low it was unrecordable in a test , and in hospital she had been diagnosed as suffering insulin-induced hypoglycaemia , lack of sugar in the blood . |
| 30 | She had been born in 1688 in Marston St. Lawrence , and had married Richard Jennens of Mollington , Oxfordshire , in 1708 [ Baker , 1 , 720 ] . |