Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how she had been brought up . |
| 2 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 3 | That was how she had been known as a child when people had contrasted her with her sister Paula . |
| 4 | Despite describing a happy childhood , she told her therapist about how she had been brought up in a family where she felt unappreciated and undervalued . |
| 5 | They named their eldest son Benjamin , after his maternal grandfather , and she would tell the young lad when he grew up of how she had been taught piano and organ by Benjamin James her father , there in that big house in Curry Rivel where they used to hang hams or sides of bacon in the huge chimney piece . |
| 6 | Amelia McLean described how she had been " waylaid … on [ her ] way home for dinner " by Mr Evans of the W. and C.U. , who " after calling her … everything but a lady , had said she was the most unsympathetic woman in Edinburgh " . |
| 7 | Now , when Beth smiled knowingly , the girl saw how she had been manipulated , and soon the two of them were laughing . |
| 8 | The door of the bookcase was open but there were no other signs of how she had been engaged . |
| 9 | She shouted at those waiting about how she had been unjustly treated . |
| 10 | Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches . |
| 11 | What haunted her was the way he had kissed her — and how she had been unable to do anything but respond ! |
| 12 | The doting grandmother smiled and chatted about how easily the little boy had accepted her , about how she had been worried he might shy away , but how he had gone straight to her . |
| 13 | She did n't understand why she had been taken from them when they loved her and wanted to keep her . |
| 14 | And the reason why she had been so slow to recognise him was that on the ship he had looked so much older . |
| 15 | Yesterday , at 3.30pm , her neighbours realised why she had been smiling and waving once more , driving the green Subaru down the winding dirt-track to her Wiltshire home . |
| 16 | You know , Mrs Winkowski , girls will talk , and I suppose it was during one of Millie 's lonely periods while under the sisters that she confided in Annabel why she had been sent to the school . |
| 17 | She well knew Richard Sharpe 's reluctance to dance , which was why she had been surprised when the message came from the Prince of Orange 's headquarters informing her that Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe would be attending His Royal Highness at the Duchess of Richmond 's ball , in anticipation of which His Royal Highness took pleasure in enclosing a ticket for Madame la Vicomtesse de Seleglise . |
| 18 | Of course she knew why she had been so anxious to come ; there must be some , perhaps many , people here who could tell her about S. Kettering . |
| 19 | Lydia was wondering why Elizabeth had n't asked April to her dinner party , and also why she had been so silent on the previous evening and had left so early . |
| 20 | She knew now why she had been born , born for his love only . |
| 21 | For it had dawned upon her suddenly why she had been able to take such pure pleasure in the Lord Owen 's triumph , unspotted by any tincture of regret or sympathy for these humbled princes driven so ignominiously out of Wales at his hands . |
| 22 | Now that she had met Silas Wilder , Lucy realised it would not be easy to persuade him to visit his stepmother , and once again she wondered why she had been stupid enough to have allowed herself to become involved in this situation . |
| 23 | Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days . |
| 24 | Her thoughts annoyingly flitted back to Ven again , and she realised now , of course , just why she had been so outraged when Lubor had tried to kiss her last Friday . |
| 25 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 26 | Well , not quite , but she felt safer after the memory of other loves , other times when she had been happy . |
| 27 | How often had this meant an edgy evening , when she had been unable to concentrate on what people were saying because of an ill-placed fabric rose or an over-embroidered antique shawl ? |
| 28 | There had been a time , a brief time , a glorious dawn , when despite her growing awareness of her own sexual failure , despite her anger and frustration , despite her own laziness and lack of commitment , there had been a time when she had been happy and hopeful and joyous . |
| 29 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 30 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |