Example sentences of "she [vb past] [be] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 2 | Judith had once confided that she too had an uncertain grasp of the past , though she 'd been drunk at the time , and had denied it vehemently when he 'd raised the subject again . |
| 3 | Rory jumped as though she 'd been shot at the sound of the lazily amused voice materialising apparently out of nowhere . |
| 4 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 5 | Used to creating and presenting ideas to a wide variety of clients , she 'd grown proud of her capacity to keep her head under pressure , yet from the moment she 'd crossed the threshold of this impressive room she 'd been put at a distinct disadvantage . |
| 6 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 7 | They suspected she had been poisoned at the party . |
| 8 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 9 | She had been working at the Hopeland missionary camp , helping educate teenage boys . |
| 10 | Born in London of an Irish mother and a Scottish father , she had been educated at a convent school in North London . |
| 11 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 12 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 13 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |