Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] she have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , two months ago she had been just one of the Pinehurst girls , and today she was the owner of a house and faced with the double problem of looking after her sister and providing a means of livelihood for them both . |
| 2 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 3 | People have been diagnosed with cancer etcetera , erm , in fact at the convention yesterday , they had some clients on the stage , one lady had been diagnosed with breast cancer , she got a pay-out from living assurance , five years later she 's been cleared , and , and she 's thrilled to bits about it . |
| 4 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 5 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 6 | Until a moment ago she 'd been ravenously hungry , but now she was certain the salad would be dust and ashes in her mouth . |
| 7 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 8 | Six years ago she had been tongue-tied in his presence , and terrified by the strength of her reaction to him , her fear manifesting itself physically , stopping the breath in her throat , tensing her muscles and making her nerves leap every time he moved or spoke to anyone , and the rare occasions on which his glance had strayed idly in her direction , it had actually hurt her . |
| 9 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 10 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 11 | Briar Cottage no longer seemed like home ; like the cottage where eleven years earlier she had been born . |
| 12 | As short a time as a few weeks previously she had been , when not bored , repelled by his music . |
| 13 | For ages now she had been able to make Pogo do whatever she wanted . |
| 14 | For some minutes now she had been disturbed by the way Beth was pacing to and fro in front of the great fireplace , a deeply thoughtful expression on her face , and her whole manner one of extreme agitation . |
| 15 | For a few yards now she had been aware of a car cruising behind her . |
| 16 | Twenty-four hours ago she had been barely aware of his existence ; now he seemed to be taking over her life ! |
| 17 | Only an hour ago she had been finishing the evening milking , peaceful in the milking house with Florence . |
| 18 | Half an hour ago she had been in a heaven of love with the enraged man before her . |
| 19 | Twenty-four hours earlier she had been admitted to the Royal London Hospital , Whitechapel after a fall at her home in Stepney . |
| 20 | A few hours earlier she had been grinding wearily at Latin prose composition , when she had caught a shocked glimpse of her pinched , haggard face in the mirror . |
| 21 | When she had left Madam Lundy 's presence earlier she had been shivering with reaction , but that had now passed , leaving her calm , her options clear . |
| 22 | Thirty minutes earlier she had been going up the stairs to read the newspaper on the toilet . |
| 23 | A few moments ago she had been burning up in his arms , caught up in the fever of his lovemaking , but now the blood seemed to have turned to ice in her veins , frozen by his uncaring tones . |
| 24 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 25 | One year earlier she had been seen in our hospital for joint pain and skin lesions on the lower legs which resembled erythema nodosum . |
| 26 | Then five minutes afterwards she 's been as normal as anyone — I suppose it 's a disease . |
| 27 | Only a short time ago she had been as physically intimate with him as it was possible for a man and woman to be . |