Example sentences of "she had been at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 2 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 3 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 4 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 5 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 6 | She retreated round the stall ; she had been at the front , helping a customer to choose something from what remained unsold . |