Example sentences of "what she had been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered how much of what she had been born with was left . |
| 2 | In staying away she was only doing what she had been asked to do and that was as consistent with her agreement to the request as her rejection of it . |
| 3 | What she had been used to see every month , postponed she had thought by the excitement , the travel . |
| 4 | She understood that — even the parts about the governing rules that made the cypher change — but her mind was too slow , too inflexible to hold and use what she had been shown . |
| 5 | Aggie went away thinking about what she had been told and she confided in Nellie Tanner once more . |
| 6 | It was what she had been told by the sisters at the convent . |
| 7 | Peering through the wrought iron barrier she watched the nuns file into their stalls , wondering why there was a screen separating what she had been told was the sanctuary from the rest of the chapel . |
| 8 | Then , suddenly , just as Joanna was nodding a dubious assent , the full force of what she had been told hit her like a thunderbolt . |
| 9 | For that was what she had been brought up to believe , that was how the rhyme went : |
| 10 | And when she reflected , as she frequently did , upon what she had been bred to , she was profoundly puzzled by her own origins . |