Example sentences of "[pron] she had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was someone she had been to bed with . |
| 2 | What could she say to someone she had been so close to , had spoken so bitterly to ? |
| 3 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 4 | She allowed her steady gaze to flicker from the glass which she had been holding firm . |
| 5 | Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme . |
| 6 | There were ornaments worth many guineas and pictures , however weird they seemed to her , which she had been told were of great artistic merit . |
| 7 | The stony-hearted shore upon which she had been washed up was always in sight of a fretting , dull , menacing sea : potentially dangerous , urged on by the tide , looking for a killing . |
| 8 | She repressed a shudder as he took the bonnet and curled himself down onto the floor holding it daintily between his long fingers — which she had been careful to avoid touching . |
| 9 | Martha longed to show off her advancement in reading and writing , for which she had been noted in the valley , and was bewildered and humiliated when she could make no sense of the books she was given . |
| 10 | Turning her head round to see what the pain could be , Pepita had seen the spider scuttle back into the crate from which she had been thrown with the bananas . |
| 11 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 13 | It was a question Marian had been expecting and which she had been asking herself but to which she did not know the answer . |
| 14 | The Doria , their own ship , brought by the Venetians and Zacco from the Abruzzi , and a veteran now of the war for which she had been chartered . |
| 15 | The midwife rolled up her sleeves and toiled all night by the light of candles stuck in turnips , and just before dawn the baby was delivered on to the same straw mattress on which she had been conceived . |
| 16 | She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged . |
| 17 | Yet she knew it was there , in the background , darkening all her thoughts , rendering her sleepless in the nights following their departure and also confirming something of which she had been dimly aware for a long time . |
| 18 | Similarly , Vera Brittain was finally converted to absolute pacifism — and rendered temporarily speechless — while listening to Christian pacifist speeches at a rally to which she had been invited to put the case for collective security . |
| 19 | It turned out , after cross examination , that the bottle in question was in fact a bottle of Algizin-P , which she had been told to use to keep her fish healthy . |
| 20 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
| 21 | ‘ Fred ’ as she was called on the circuit , played no less than 26 Federation and Wightman Cup rubbers for Britain , before directing her sporting talents , in a competitive sense , increasingly towards golf to which she had been introduced by her devoted husband Keith , himself a former leading British tennis junior . |
| 22 | But it would have made no difference to his attitude to Matilda : for him — whatever the circumstances in which she had been removed — she was a runaway nun who should be forced to return to her convent . |
| 23 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 24 | These were the ordinary things from which she had been protected by her money and her ill health . |
| 25 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 28 | She knew that she had lost her independence as a woman , which she had been so proud of . |
| 29 | On the day after Christmas she received the letter from him which she had been expecting . |
| 30 | After the depressing makeshifts to which she had been reduced by British rationing , the sensation of wonderful materials against her skin was almost as pleasing as the vendeuse 's comments about ‘ Madame 's wonderful figure ’ and striking face . |