Example sentences of "she had [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 2 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 3 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 4 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 5 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 6 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 7 | ‘ When she was writing Rebecca she had been married for about four years , had one child and during the writing of the book , had her second child . |
| 8 | Had he not been she might have telephoned him instead of Nick , when she had been desperate for company . |
| 9 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 10 | She had been sorry for him , and he had cheated her ! |
| 11 | She asked after you and was pleased when I told her how well your business was doing and that you seemed in good spirits since she said she had been anxious for you . |
| 12 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 13 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 14 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 15 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 16 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 17 | She had been independent for too long . |
| 18 | She had been worried for a bit but now she was certain . |
| 19 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 20 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 21 | She had been ready for the road , then Mr Arthur died . |
| 22 | At ten to seven she had been ready for twenty minutes . |
| 23 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 24 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 25 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 26 | On admission she had been anuric for 24 h ( haemoglobin 4.4 g/dL , potassium 4.1 mmol/L , creatinine 937 mmol/L , urea 119 mmol/L , lactic dehydrogenase 3327 IU/L , platelets 71×10/L ) . |
| 27 | He gave her so much pleasure when she was with him and she had been lonely for so long . |
| 28 | I took my child out of the school system because I did n't think the physio she had was right for her needs . |