Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the onset she had been referred to a surgeon and had a normal barium enema and chest x ray . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Valerie Cass made an elaborate gesture , reminding Charles once again what a bad actress she had been . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She opened a small peacock-blue fan she had been holding and began to fan herself . |
| 13 | The pleasure she had been feeling turned sour , and she pushed him away . |
| 14 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What a fool she had been . |
| 17 | She did n't want Steve to know the terrible truth , of what a silly fool she had been once again . |
| 18 | Isabel paused , the refrain she had been absently singing fading away as the soldier stepped into the pleasance at the same moment . |
| 19 | She was not going to fall in love with him , but even as she said this vehemently to herself , Sara was afraid that she had already gone over the precipice she had been conscious of this morning . |
| 20 | She and Jack , the boy she had been walking out with , were saving up so that they could buy the shop from old Mr Peabody , who wanted to retire . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Tears again , she felt like the child she had been when her father gave wild stinging slaps to her legs by way of welcome after she 'd run away from home . |
| 23 | The adult Eileen was quite intelligent enough to understand the devastating effects of those careless words on the child she had been — although she did not blame her mother in any way for using them . |
| 24 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 25 | Maria did n't believe that the child she had been then could have fascinated him . |
| 26 | He saw that she was weeping , not for her father but for herself , for the child she had been . |
| 27 | There was the portrait she had been so frightened by when she was little . |
| 28 | As Beth had reminded the boy on more than one occasion , his sister also had lost her parents , and the home she had been raised in . |
| 29 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 30 | In this dream she had been locked into the school library with an exam paper containing one question and one only : Compare and contrast narrative method in Proust and Tom Jones . |