Example sentences of "her [noun sg] had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her case had been referred to the Court of Appeal by the United Kingdom Home Secretary in September 1991 after forensic evidence given at her trial had been called into question [ see p. 38445 ] . |
| 2 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 3 | Her case had been referred to the Court of Appeal by the United Kingdom Home Secretary in September 1991 after forensic evidence given at her trial had been called into question [ see p. 38445 ] . |
| 4 | She showed up in her Rolls in the car park of the supermarket , and , although there was a lot of nodding and smiling and remarks about coincidences , it was pretty clear that her presence had been arranged for someone 's benefit . |
| 5 | For as long as she could remember , her hair had been kept in a short no-nonsense style that would n't require any of her precious time to look after it . |
| 6 | Her hair had been done in the salon at the Grand ( paid for by TVS ) , and she was wearing what looked like a gypsy costume . |
| 7 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 8 | Her hair had been washed in a coconut shampoo and gleamed under the light . |
| 9 | It seemed to her that her heart had been crushed in metal hands , icy cold and shining . |
| 10 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 11 | Only the owner was excluded from the common knowledge at Kempton that day : that her horse had been wrestled into second place by an apprentice who could n't anticipate the obvious . |
| 12 | Before Nathan entered , her mind had been filled with the prospect of playing Lady Macbeth at last , and to all appearance she might still have been thinking of nothing but that . |
| 13 | Her mind had been occupied with things like the freezing point of soda water or the melting point of cheese ; later on it became the non-revolutionary redistribution of the means of production and the alternate vote . |
| 14 | Her trunk had been placed at the foot of her bed , whose curtains , in harmony with those at the window , were of heavy glazed chintz patterned with flowers . |
| 15 | When her body was discovered on waste ground in Hertfordshire her neck had been crushed with great force . |
| 16 | Magdalene Rutherford , 66 , first suffered bouts of breathlessness in the mid-Seventies but it was only four years ago that she was told her condition had been caused by exposure to asbestos at the dockyard , a judge heard . |
| 17 | Suzanne Greenhill , 20 , had been blindfolded — depriving her of the last sense she could have used to identify the attacker — and her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth . |
| 18 | But , minutes later , when the trio had left , the 89-year-old discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom of her terraced home in Albany Road , Prescot . |
| 19 | But minutes later , when the trio had left , the 89 year old lady discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom of her terraced home in Albany Road , Prescot . |
| 20 | But minutes after the trio left , the 89-year-old woman discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom . |
| 21 | In those days , too , she had been afraid of Gareth Davis , but her fear had been tinged with an awareness of his overt masculinity . |
| 22 | Two days later I met the same lady and her sari had been stolen in the middle of the night . |
| 23 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 24 | She told me that her fiancé had been killed in the war . |
| 25 | A letter from her killer and kidnapper to West Yorkshire Police claimed that after she had been beaten unconscious , then strangled , her body had been kept in a wheelie-bin for two days before being taken to where it was later found Easton , near Grantham , Lincs in July 1991 . |
| 26 | Her body had been sewn in a stag 's skin and the stone coffin sealed with lead and iron and bound with a heavy chain . |
| 27 | Her body had been fused with concrete , plastic , plaster and steel . |
| 28 | Her place had been set with a wreath of holly , adorned with a place card on which Richard had laboriously written ‘ Miss Abbitt ’ in scarlet ink with a liberal spattering of blots . |
| 29 | Behind , on the whitewashed walls , her attention had been caught by coarsely painted , evocative sea- and landscapes . |
| 30 | Ell continued to worry about why her husband had been sent by the Academy to the planet . |