Example sentences of "she [vb past] [be] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 2 | Judith had once confided that she too had an uncertain grasp of the past , though she 'd been drunk at the time , and had denied it vehemently when he 'd raised the subject again . |
| 3 | well I think Dawn is quite happy now , I mean I think she felt as though she 'd been rushed at first , but I mean |
| 4 | For most of the week she 'd been seated at her desk , wading through piles of old G.W. design books , taking notes , making sketches , dashing off diagrams , in an effort to come up with some common thread in the mish-mash of styles that dragged dully across the pages . |
| 5 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 6 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 7 | Rory jumped as though she 'd been shot at the sound of the lazily amused voice materialising apparently out of nowhere . |
| 8 | When she changed schools , however , the maths A level course was different from the one she 'd been following at her old school , but the new teacher expected her to catch up immediately . |
| 9 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 10 | He said she 'd been raped at 18 by a Lebanese man in London . |
| 11 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 12 | Used to creating and presenting ideas to a wide variety of clients , she 'd grown proud of her capacity to keep her head under pressure , yet from the moment she 'd crossed the threshold of this impressive room she 'd been put at a distinct disadvantage . |
| 13 | She 'd been found at last . |
| 14 | I saw what she 'd been smiling at . |
| 15 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 16 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 17 | She had been rededicated at St Luke 's a year previous to that . |
| 18 | They suspected she had been poisoned at the party . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 21 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 22 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 23 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 24 | ‘ If you continue to look at me like that we sha n't make it any further than the nearest bed , ’ he murmured , and Claudia jumped ; she had been staring at him hungrily . |
| 25 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 26 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 27 | She had been found at two that afternoon by a party searching the Pertsey and north-west region of Vangmoor . |
| 28 | She had been working at the Hopeland missionary camp , helping educate teenage boys . |
| 29 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 30 | From the beginning she had been angered at having to take the girl in , for Lavender had been lovely , and Liti detested her for it . |