Example sentences of "she [vb past] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHe 'd been entertaining Nathan in Tammuz 's office , messing with the computer . |
| 2 | While declaring undying love for me she 'd been busy making herself a small fortune giving kiss-and-tell interviews to some tabloid rag . ’ |
| 3 | She 'd been surprised Carol had offered to ice it , for Carol had never been domesticated . |
| 4 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 5 | She had been fiery Sally-Anne still , and then fiery McAllister , and a few moments ' loving from a man she loved had undone her , had brought her not joy , but a trauma of the remembered pain and anguish which Havvie had inflicted on her . |
| 6 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 7 | She had immediately closed her mind to all thought , not even realising how tightly she had been gripping fitzAlan 's hand . |
| 8 | At Usher she had been top dog . |