Example sentences of "[noun] she had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 2 | Well , Felipe could n't go to that woman anyhow because she was with her husband no matter what signals she had been giving Felipe . |
| 3 | Although SDPJ leader Takako Doi had wanted to field more candidates she had been prevented from so doing by pressure from sitting socialist members of the Diet . |
| 4 | At one point the mistress of disguise demonstrated to her co-accused how the ginger wig she had been wearing when they were stopped by police , fell off as she adjusted her hat . |
| 5 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 6 | 19 October 1799 ; off the southern tip of the Isle of Weight she had been escorting a convoy of merchant ships through the English Channel until , in comparative safety , the convoy dispersed to their destinations . |
| 7 | With this firmly decided , she made her way up to change out of the trousers and sweater she had been wearing all that long day . |
| 8 | ‘ When she was writing Rebecca she had been married for about four years , had one child and during the writing of the book , had her second child . |
| 9 | Durance said to Rain : ‘ I ca n't believe Joseph does n't understand that selling under her name a painting recognizable as a Durance is equivalent to telling a journalist she had been painting my pictures . |
| 10 | At the onset she had been referred to a surgeon and had a normal barium enema and chest x ray . |
| 11 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 12 | She spoke Spanish a little , enough to understand what was going on , although at her interview she had been told that all her patients would be British . |
| 13 | Having lent Hale money to pay her rent she had been angered to discover her spending enormous sums on an haute-couture dress , and refused to turn up to what , in retrospect , became Hale 's farewell party . |
| 14 | On a week 's package holiday at the time , the first break she had been able to afford since leaving drama school , it had taken her all of five minutes to make up her mind to stay . |
| 15 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 16 | The words she had been about to say died on Hari 's lips . |
| 17 | I 'm sorry , ’ he repeated , and the smile he gave her was so gentle that the angry words she had been going to utter died , locked somewhere in her throat . |
| 18 | Valerie Cass made an elaborate gesture , reminding Charles once again what a bad actress she had been . |
| 19 | They crossed M Street and kept going and in a doorway she snatched off the wig and beret and rammed them into the shoulder bag that had been expanded from the purse she had been carrying before . |
| 20 | ‘ He said he 'd see you today , ’ Dana said , perching on the edge of Claudia 's desk , scattering the designs she had been working on , much to her annoyance . |
| 21 | She opened a small peacock-blue fan she had been holding and began to fan herself . |
| 22 | The pleasure she had been feeling turned sour , and she pushed him away . |
| 23 | She raised troubled eyes to her sister , and for the first time Claudia saw a glimpse of the Dana she had been before ambition and the love of money had taken over her life . |
| 24 | She could n't remember the details , only the sense of confusion that everything was different — the language , the schools she had been sent to one after another . |
| 25 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 26 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
| 27 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 28 | With Giles she had been able to turn her back and walk away . |
| 29 | In her preoccupation with other , larger and less accessible mysteries she had been too certain of the supreme value of her endeavours to attach great value to the consequent deprivations ; but now she remembered also how Tom Horrocks had lightly berated her celibate condition while they skated with Edwin on the frozen lake . |
| 30 | Philippa was ousted by her uncle , William IV 's younger brother , but in the eyes of her descendants she had been the rightful Countess of Toulouse and periodically they went to war to re-assert that claim . |