Example sentences of "she had been [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 2 | By the time InterSpray arrived back in Southampton she had been at sea for 156 days , 14 hours and 9 minutes . |
| 3 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 4 | She had been on call for forty-eight hours , had snatched very little sleep , and was about to enjoy two full days leave . |
| 5 | As for HMS United she had been on station at the rendezvous ; but as it is barely possible to see a 10,000 tonner at 400 yards on a rough night there is little chance of seeing the recognition signals from a canoe when these torch or RG beams are a mere four feet ( just over a metre ) at arm 's length above the waves . |
| 6 | She had been on duty since Friday morning . |
| 7 | Anna did not say that she was not a virgin , that she had been to bed with two of the men in West Kensington and had been , at seventeen , much inclined to suppose herself in love with one of them . |
| 8 | It was someone she had been to bed with . |
| 9 | ‘ Made you afraid of men ? ’ he queried , and looked puzzled as to how that could be when he knew that , since leaving Ardis , she had been to bed with his cousin . |
| 10 | She had been to Italy on a coach tour , and the Italian men could n't control themselves she said . |
| 11 | She confirmed she had been to Hawaii with the hunk and said : ‘ We all had a laugh , that 's all . |
| 12 | The ceremony meant an unscheduled return to work for Christine as she had been off work with a broken hip , but was well on the way to recovery and set for a New Year return . |
| 13 | She had been off work for several days and Lovebird had kept her in bed and fed her chicken soup from the stove . |
| 14 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 15 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
| 16 | She had been in love with Alexander . |
| 17 | She had projecting teeth and told everyone who would listen that she had been in love with Yorick since she was twelve . |
| 18 | It was only because his repeated invitations had made her think that maybe the young man did need the support of someone familiar that she had agreed to come to Lisbon — and because , after a hardworking summer , she had been in need of a break . |
| 19 | None of this mess was of her making , yet she was just as much a prisoner as if she had been in gaol like Clive . |
| 20 | They had evidently been sent by Judith : she had been in control of the treasure they brought with them , and , interestingly , of Charles 's regalia . |
| 21 | Her eighteen-month jail sentence was reduced on appeal — but not before she had been in prison for six months . ) |
| 22 | She had been like clay in the hands of a master craftsman , and the most unpalatable knowledge was that she had n't had the strength to resist that breathtaking attraction . |