Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 2 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 3 | She showed us her arms , and we saw with horror that her skin was black and blue where she had been beaten . |
| 4 | He got half-way down the corridor and realized in irritation that he had no idea where she had been given an office . |
| 5 | Until then her sole performance would be as guest of honour that evening at the Eastbourne Conservative Club , where she had been asked to unveil a bust in commemoration of Dr Bodkin Adams . |
| 6 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 7 | Where she had been born ? |
| 8 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 9 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 10 | But of Doreen there was no sign — at least not until they went inside and she emerged from her bedroom , where she had been weeping . |
| 11 | Omar Kujabi , a Senegalese labourer and amateur wrestler , has not been seen at the Abuko reserve , near Banjul , since the body of Mrs Penelope Hiscocks , 42 , was found in the grounds of a house where she had been staying . |
| 12 | Isolated from her sons , Diana had been expecting a visit from Gilbey at Althorp House where she had been staying with her brother , Charles . |
| 13 | He sometimes had given her a lift to Atherton , Manchester , where she had been staying . |
| 14 | As he entered the garden through the back.gate , Isobel got up from in front of a flower bed where she had been planting bulbs . |
| 15 | Jay 's rainbow wings fluttered around a sun-sparkling river that had become her life , where she had been moping by an old canal full of dead shopping trolleys for years . |
| 16 | Susan reeled away from us , flames springing up where she had been touched . |
| 17 | FitzAlan glanced over his shoulder , turning fully when he saw the ugly discolouration along her cheekbone and the narrow line of dried blood where she had been cut by a ring . |
| 18 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 19 | She had , but it had happened the previous afternoon , and Jack had gone with her to Rotherhithe Infirmary where she had been admitted with a broken hip . |
| 20 | She had no fire in her bedroom , where she had been sitting waiting for his call , and staring at the dying mistletoe . |
| 21 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |
| 22 | A magazine lay on the floor beside a wicker chair where she had been sleeping . |
| 23 | She killed herself on May 14 in the Beijing villa where she had been allowed to live since 1984 . |
| 24 | She had allowed him to entice her into what was , to him , nothing more than a seduction scene , where she had been primed and ripe for the taking . |
| 25 | Her father had been maimed while on duty in Ireland , and she herself had been sold into virtual slavery there , where she had been seduced and made pregnant . |
| 26 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 27 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 28 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 29 | Finally , Dawn came here , where she 's been given practical and moral support . |
| 30 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |