Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had been to one of their meetings , and was even more confirmed not only in the conviction that they were right , but that her own group should get involved in trying to organise women to campaign for wages for housework . |
| 32 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 33 | She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’ |
| 34 | She had been to most of the early-morning markets as far as Hyères . |
| 35 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 36 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 37 | At first appraisal , Great Britain was , in 1914 , undisputed mistress of the seas , as she had been since 1805 when Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar . |
| 38 | She had been through enough already . |
| 39 | She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things . |
| 40 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 41 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 42 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 43 | Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals . |
| 44 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |
| 45 | Apparently she 's been off all week . |
| 46 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 47 | She 's been through that process once , and it seems that she 'll stay immune to further absorption . |
| 48 | ‘ She 's been through enough . ’ |
| 49 | Her singing voice is far more impressive than her talking voice ( she 's been to musical theatre college ) , and the songs will be pure pop — ’ Let's be honest , that 's my audience , ’ she says . |
| 50 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 51 | she 's been like that for two days now |
| 52 | She 's had it ever since she 's been in that house . |
| 53 | Yes , but this fellow you see , I said to him erm , you had a lot to do with that fellow , he 'd , he 'd been down to collect him from someone on the South Coast as well with a police of course , and I said what happened to the little girl ? he said oh she 's been in psychiatric care , care for four years |