Example sentences of "that she [verb] [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no blood , no sign that she had been touched . |
| 2 | The knowledge that her mother loved her was not sufficient to quench her rage , for she felt that she had been made to grow up too soon and had no idea that her mother regretted her own inability to speak openly and lose her temper . |
| 3 | Even now that she had been made a director of the firm , Laura was well aware that it did n't mean that she had a job for life . |
| 4 | The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour . |
| 5 | It was not often , in her timid life , that she had been wanted . |
| 6 | When the letter arrived telling her that she had been accepted to read History of Art , she shouted ‘ Hooray ! ’ and flung her arms around her brother , then burst into uncontrollable tears of relief . |
| 7 | On Jan. 31 , 1990 , Thatcher admitted that she had been misled about the extent of the subversion campaign , while on Feb. 7 the House of Commons select committee on defence announced that it was to hold an inquiry into the MOD 's handling of the affair . |
| 8 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 9 | She took little account of time , and was hardly even aware that she had been placed in Lady Merchiston 's old bedchamber . |
| 10 | Mrs. Morgan testified that she had been dragged by her husband from the bedroom which she shared with her small son . |
| 11 | As the door closed behind the girl , Emily somehow felt that she had been bested . |
| 12 | Her defence was that she had been influenced to sign by duress on the part of her husband . |
| 13 | Flavia managed to recall that she had been asked to dinner and that the time was eight . |
| 14 | Mrs. Steed 's statement , too , dealt with her lack of any recollection of the occasion or knowledge that she had been asked to sign a transfer of the property . |
| 15 | This happened to our Corporal Jane , who arrived back in camp after a brief visit to one of the neighbouring air fields to find that she had been posted to the Met Office at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon , and the corporal there , Rosemary Hilton , had received a reciprocal posting to Bourn . |
| 16 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
| 17 | There she told officers that she had been stripped , raped and abused by the men of the First Battalion . |
| 18 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
| 19 | She was so pleased to learn that Barbara Coleman was eager to talk to her again , and that she had been given the perfect reason for spending part of her day revelling in Chagall 's colour , that she smiled as she cut inland towards Maurin 's gallery . |
| 20 | Having been reassured on this point , he had grudgingly accepted Ellen 's explanation that she had been given leave to visit him to see how he was coping alone , and had promptly put his daughter and her companion to work . |
| 21 | Dr Marshall , 60 , said it was disgraceful that she had been given little more than 48 hours to tidy her office . |
| 22 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 23 | Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions . |
| 24 | She stayed away for two weeks , and there were reports that she had been seen in Bath with Sergeant Troy . |
| 25 | During a heresy trial in 1429 , a deposition against Margery Baxter , a wright 's wife from Martham in Norfolk , stated that she had been seen boiling unam peciam de Baken on the Saturday after Ash Wednesday . |
| 26 | It had been no coincidence that she had been called to the phone in the weighing room . |
| 27 | There were stories that she had been eaten by wild animals , but John Ward did n't believe it . |
| 28 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 29 | He saw her dust devil from a long way away , and knew that she had been led here by her own dreams , by the pull of the moon . |
| 30 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |