Example sentences of "she had been [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 2 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
| 3 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 4 | They were beautiful , these Andalucían horses , and she had been given a long lecture on the subject by Ana , who seemed to be an expert . |
| 5 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 6 | She had been given a plain black dress with a crisp white apron and a mob-cap . |
| 7 | Ms Wilikins did not look too happy with the question for which she had been given no prior notice . |
| 8 | She was so pleased to learn that Barbara Coleman was eager to talk to her again , and that she had been given the perfect reason for spending part of her day revelling in Chagall 's colour , that she smiled as she cut inland towards Maurin 's gallery . |
| 9 | She rang down to the reception , and asked tetchily whether she had been given the correct room number . |
| 10 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 11 | She had been called a despicable woman , a scarlet creature , a hussy , a jessy , and on the occasions when her father had taken drink , much worse . |
| 12 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 13 | Her earlier fears had faded and she thought how foolish she had been to let a ridiculous fancy disturb her happiness . |
| 14 | I was sure she had been holding a small phial with the letters ‘ SUL ’ written on it . |
| 15 | She had been expecting a small , dusty room filled with paintings draped in cloths that were thick with dust , where air would have a musty scent of old canvas and decay . |
| 16 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |
| 17 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 18 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 19 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 20 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 21 | True to the word , she had been adding a full bottle to her small garden pond on a weekly basis , for the past month . |
| 22 | She had been rehearsing a new song on the way to the Ritz , but did n't know who wrote it . |
| 23 | She had been reviewing the previous week on her walk to the rectory . |