Example sentences of "she had [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been delighted at her first view of the interior , the grained wood panels on which someone had painted castles and hearts , diamonds and clusters of roses in brilliant reds , yellows and greens . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had always thought that , and she had been involved with him , willy-nilly , over the house . |
| 4 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 5 | ‘ They asked about Joanna , and because I did n't know what was going on I said she had been due at the Leisure Centre at 7pm to take her class . |
| 6 | She had been loyal to him , had understood him better than in all his youth he had ever known . |
| 7 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 8 | She had been mean with money all her life , using her daughter and granddaughter as servants , and even herself at times during the last seven or so years as unhired help , except for the time that Rosie was here . |
| 9 | ‘ She had been depressed during the last 18 months but I thought she was getting better . |
| 10 | She had been halfway through wallpapering one room when the pull of the sun had grown too strong to resist a second longer . |
| 11 | She had been selfish in coming here . |
| 12 | She had been keen on the idea and had talked of planting more spruce for the specific object of selling them as trees at Christmas but she had died before they could do anything more about it . |
| 13 | She had been unaware of every detail of performances , and one or two offensive productions had crept in . |
| 14 | For a long time she had been unaware of anything lacking , but recently she had started feeling somehow … adrift . |
| 15 | Mrs Diggory was herself but little touched , Theda believed , but she had been upset by her husband 's woeful demeanour . |
| 16 | After all , just because she had been unaccompanied at Emma 's house , just because she had accepted his invitation to dinner , did not mean that she was unattached . |
| 17 | It made her feel she had been incompetent in handling her affairs , and she did n't like that . |
| 18 | Six years ago she had been tongue-tied in his presence , and terrified by the strength of her reaction to him , her fear manifesting itself physically , stopping the breath in her throat , tensing her muscles and making her nerves leap every time he moved or spoke to anyone , and the rare occasions on which his glance had strayed idly in her direction , it had actually hurt her . |
| 19 | She had been close to her own flat , the streetlights on , but she had fought alone . |
| 20 | She had been right about Short ; the way to get him to listen was to treat him as if he were a human being , which he clearly was n't . |
| 21 | She had been right about the importance of Brückner 's story . |
| 22 | The storeroom ( yes , she had been right about that after all ) was not very big and not very well lit . |
| 23 | But she had been right about the other thing , so maybe she was right about this . |
| 24 | So she had been right about his mood ! |
| 25 | So she had been right about Rebecca after all , she thought as they walked back towards the main part of the house . |
| 26 | She had been right to be wary of any new involvement , to stop things before they went too far . |
| 27 | Joan Durbeyfield , watching , wondered for the first time if she had been right in encouraging Tess to go . |
| 28 | She had been right in her summing-up of him . |
| 29 | Rourke had made no move to contact her after she had left the office yesterday morning , and that had to mean that she had been right in her assumptions . |
| 30 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |