Example sentences of "she [vb past] [been] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished she could say she knew she was being difficult and edgy , taking it out on him because she 'd been denied another child . |
| 2 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 3 | I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter , |
| 4 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 5 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 6 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 7 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 8 | She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it . |
| 9 | One lady , he claimed , almost lost her marbles when the word she picked out of the hat was the same as the one she 'd been handed 27,000 feet up a Himalayan mountain in her backpack and bivouac , far-out , cool-man days . |
| 10 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 11 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 12 | Another , a regular visitor to the Undercroft , presented a model of the King of Siam 's Royal barge , which she had been given 40 years ago , after service in our Bangkok Embassy . |
| 13 | She had been stabbed 50 times . |
| 14 | She had been stabbed several times . |
| 15 | She had been born ten years ago . |
| 16 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 17 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 18 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 19 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 20 | She had been experiencing considerable feelings of grief about her husband and had been able to cry on occasions . |
| 21 | She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son . |
| 22 | She had been named regional marketing services manager and expected the job to be confirmed . |
| 23 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 24 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 25 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |
| 26 | Perhaps Ruth had done something especially stunning , as when she had been made chief maid of honour to the school 's May Queen . |
| 27 | Grasping her conference handbook tightly , she took her place in the queue where , she had been told last night over supper , she ran the risk of being stripped and searched by an army of discharged traffic wardens . |
| 28 | She had been working full time in a local factory for the past 8 years and usually enjoyed good relationships with her friends . |
| 29 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 30 | The jokes between her father , mother and older brother had been adult , almost risqué ; she had been allowed several glasses of champagne without a reproachful look , and her rather revealing décolletage had passed without comment . |