Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] she had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was just one thing she had to get hold of before she left — the only wedding present she had been prepared to accept from William Ash . |
| 2 | ‘ The girl must be busy ’ , ‘ the maintenance course she had been on was probably gruelling ’ , or ‘ she was still too upset to put pen to paper ’ . |
| 3 | Mrs Gracie put down the silver photograph frame she had been dusting , and went to see who it was . |
| 4 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 5 | A 59-YEAR-OLD woman WHO tried to burn down a council flat she had been evicted from narrowly escaped prison yesterday . |
| 6 | Three months later she joined C&R on a full-time basis , although throughout her maternity leave she had been attending meetings and helping out on special project work . |
| 7 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 8 | Dinah flushed ; since the newspaper insertion she had been wary of making known her name . |
| 9 | Jessamyn lay flat on the contoured table as the Doc sliced away the facial bandages , still relaxed from the morph-plus shots she had been taking every day . |
| 10 | Indeed , during the train journey she had been weighing in her mind the advantages of an Italian dish ‘ something with funghi ’ — as against sole in an exquisite sauce or a cut off a splendid classic sirloin . |
| 11 | Her family received letters from Katy on Wednesday saying she had been seriously ill with malaria . |
| 12 | Anne felt an urge to throw the kind of temper tantrum she had been able to get away with when she was six years old . |
| 13 | Yes , Dragonfly Moonchild she had been and loved the summer-child in her . |
| 14 | Since his sly suggestions of Thursday midnight she had been unremittingly at war with him , though they still ostensibly shared a bed . |
| 15 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 16 | David gave up his job as the headmaster of a primary school near St Helens in Lancashire earlier this year , his wife , Vicky gave up the job of supply teaching she had been doing and , with their two children , Jonathan ( 11 ) and Patrick ( 5 ) , set off in May last year for some serious cruising , which includes going transatlantic with the ARC . |
| 17 | This time she announced it was n't Mrs Brown 's four calling birds three French hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree she had been five gold rings . |