Example sentences of "she had been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had been at art college , but that was just kids hunting for trophies , and they had n't meant a toss to her . |
| 2 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |
| 3 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 4 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 5 | It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day . |
| 6 | By the time InterSpray arrived back in Southampton she had been at sea for 156 days , 14 hours and 9 minutes . |
| 7 | If she had been at court the young dandies would have written odes and sonnets to her eyebrows , her finger nails and her sweet rose mouth . |
| 8 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 9 | It was news to her , she had been at home all the time and her husband had taken another ‘ wife ’ . |
| 10 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 11 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
| 12 | She once confessed how unhappy she had been at home . |
| 13 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 14 | When she had been at college she had socialised in plenty and had had her fair share of boyfriends , Ashley reflected , as they drove along , but since then her energies had been single-mindedly channelled into her career . |
| 15 | She had been on call for forty-eight hours , had snatched very little sleep , and was about to enjoy two full days leave . |
| 16 | As for HMS United she had been on station at the rendezvous ; but as it is barely possible to see a 10,000 tonner at 400 yards on a rough night there is little chance of seeing the recognition signals from a canoe when these torch or RG beams are a mere four feet ( just over a metre ) at arm 's length above the waves . |
| 17 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 18 | She looked exceptionally well , glowing with health , almost as though she had been on holiday , which Liz knew she had not . |
| 19 | She had been on duty since Friday morning . |
| 20 | All he had wanted was to slake his own desires , and she had been on hand , a willing and eager victim . |
| 21 | Anna did not say that she was not a virgin , that she had been to bed with two of the men in West Kensington and had been , at seventeen , much inclined to suppose herself in love with one of them . |
| 22 | It was someone she had been to bed with . |
| 23 | ‘ Made you afraid of men ? ’ he queried , and looked puzzled as to how that could be when he knew that , since leaving Ardis , she had been to bed with his cousin . |
| 24 | Clelia worked there because she painted : also because her parents pulled strings : also because she had been to art school : also because she had some highly inexplicit connexion with Martin . |
| 25 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 26 | She had been off work for several days and Lovebird had kept her in bed and fed her chicken soup from the stove . |
| 27 | The ceremony meant an unscheduled return to work for Christine as she had been off work with a broken hip , but was well on the way to recovery and set for a New Year return . |
| 28 | She raised troubled eyes to her sister , and for the first time Claudia saw a glimpse of the Dana she had been before ambition and the love of money had taken over her life . |
| 29 | One night as she lay in bed with her husband , she heard ‘ a sound of melody so sweet and delectable , that she thought she had been in paradise ’ . |
| 30 | For a while she had been in paradise ; now it was over . |