Example sentences of "she had been [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had been stabbed 50 times . |
| 3 | She had been stabbed several times . |
| 4 | She had been born ten years ago . |
| 5 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 6 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 7 | She had been experiencing considerable feelings of grief about her husband and had been able to cry on occasions . |
| 8 | She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had been noting various titles during Joyce 's discourse ; there was a new book about bats that Edward would want , and one or two things she would like to get hold of herself — the sole perquisite of this trade was a surreptitious early pick of incoming titles before they went on the shelves . |