Example sentences of "she had been [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 2 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 3 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 4 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 5 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 6 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 7 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |