Example sentences of "she had been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 2 | She had been right of course . |
| 3 | It was a personal matter , and she had no intention of telling a snooty foreign doctor about the troubles she had been through with Ken Noakes from Audiology . |
| 4 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 5 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 6 | By the time she reappeared , she had been up to Scotland and back , to spend the weekend with Charles at the Queen Mother 's home , Birkhall . |
| 7 | Nutty changed , and felt obliged to confess to her parents what she had been up to . |
| 8 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 9 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't think , ’ said Betty , looking suspiciously at Lydia , as though wondering what she had been up to while her own attention had been elsewhere . |
| 11 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 12 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 13 | She had been completely on Daisy 's side , from the very beginning . |
| 14 | She had been completely against the war , right from the start . |
| 15 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 16 | She had been just in time . |
| 17 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 18 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 19 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 20 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 21 | She had been away from work for eight years and her second child was starting school when she saw an advertisement for a part-time market research executive . |
| 22 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 23 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 24 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 25 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 26 | There were so many more than when she had been here with Morthen . |
| 27 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 28 | She had been almost in delirium , consumed with an animal desire . |
| 29 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 30 | Since his sly suggestions of Thursday midnight she had been unremittingly at war with him , though they still ostensibly shared a bed . |