Example sentences of "[noun pl] she had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The words she had been about to say died on Hari 's lips . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Before lapsing into a coma Suzanne , who had left home after a row with her stepfather , told rescuers she had been held captive for a week . |
| 12 | When the proceedings were adjourned for lunch , Julia collected the notes she had been conscientiously making and pushed them into her briefcase , before looking for David to see whether he wanted to have lunch with her . |
| 13 | Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously . |
| 14 | It was one of the reasons she had been promoted so fast . |
| 15 | ‘ And this year you 're crazy about Maria Luisa , ’ Ruth murmured , gazing down at the fingers she had been wringing till they were red and hot . |
| 16 | For the past few hours she had been too busy to think of her own problem . |
| 17 | Somehow she managed to take a proper breath , not the little shallow gasps she had been giving up to now . |
| 18 | Those views she had been taught in the twenties while a young girl , that men do not love or respect , still less marry , women who have ‘ given themselves ’ to them , she had been obliged to revise . |
| 19 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 20 | As they had passed by Du Cane Road , where the entrance to Wormwood Scrubs prison was , she had been reminded of how many times she had been there , visiting either her husband or one of the older boys . |
| 21 | It had felt like a game of hide-and-seek , and Shiona , though at times she had been terrified of losing him , had thoroughly enjoyed the drive . |
| 22 | Nervous , perhaps , on edge maybe , because it seemed to her that she would have to keep her wits about her unless she wanted this outing to end up as fruitless as the other times she had been in his company . |
| 23 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 24 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 25 | In the early days she had been stung by criticism of the way she dressed . |
| 26 | For the second time in two days she had been bought and sold . |
| 27 | During the last few days she had been sent a poison pen letter , had her life turned upside down , and now she was in the arms of the man whom she had been absolutely determined to divorce . |
| 28 | For the past two days she had been dreading the proximity this trip would involve , but gradually , as the car wound its way along the narrow mountain roads , she could feel herself beginning to relax . |
| 29 | In the weeks she had been here , she had managed to create an area of ordered calm which spoke of high efficiency and brisk management . |
| 30 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |