Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] she had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When she was writing Rebecca she had been married for about four years , had one child and during the writing of the book , had her second child . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | George told Geoffrey she had been engaged to Play Peter Pan in the next production . |
| 4 | ( She assured Charles she had been subtle in her questioning , but he dreaded to think what she meant by subtlety . |
| 5 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 6 | The violence of Ursula 's reaction convinced Charlotte she had been wise to meet Derek Fairfax before going to Swans ' Meadow . |
| 7 | In both cases the choice is between the serious but dull ( when seeing Paul she had been completing her thesis on religious poetry ) and the creative but frivolous ( she collaborates with Bernard on a book about adultery in medieval literature ) . |
| 8 | Thank God she had been spared the ordeal of surgery . |