Example sentences of "she [vb past] be [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 3 | She had been sentenced to three months in jail . |
| 4 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 5 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 6 | ‘ Everyone does , ’ said Comfort , forgetting the times when she had been driven to distracted cruelty by Julia 's unfailing matter-of-factness — and by her concentration on other people . |