Example sentences of "she had [adv] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been a lad for a couple of years now , but she knew the routine . |
| 2 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 3 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 4 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 5 | She had n't been a patient for over twenty years , since she 'd had the barrage of undignified tests and minor operations that had led to nothing but disappointment . |
| 6 | Daphne felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy ’ ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with the American actress Gertrude Lawrence' |
| 7 | She felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy . ’ |
| 8 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 9 | Instead , she had not been a burden , either in my mind or , more importantly , in her own . |
| 10 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 11 | Since she had not been a UK resident for longer than 3 yrs , you had kindly found a policy which charged ‘ only' £14 extra . |
| 12 | She had also been a builder before coming to the school and ended up doing most of the work . |
| 13 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 14 | She had clearly been a very good-looking woman when younger , and even now was handsome ; paradoxically , the artifices she employed to emphasise this were the very features to strike a false note . |
| 15 | It has been suggested that she had once been a Benedictine nun of the convent of Carrow , which was situated near the church where she eventually had her cell : to this day Benedictine nuns take the title ‘ Dame ’ , the honorary title of any woman of rank at this time . |
| 16 | She had once been a famous athlete , and even now the muscles were still clearly in evidence . |
| 17 | She had once been a warm Methodist and so too , probably , had been most of her followers . |
| 18 | She adopted an abrasive stance towards the European Common Market , for which she had never been a strong enthusiast . |
| 19 | It should n't ; she had never been a woman to give a damn about other people 's opinions . |
| 20 | She had always said she had never been a shop-girl and she was n't going to start now . |
| 21 | She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor . |
| 22 | She had never been a Bonapartist , yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen . |
| 23 | Grace Bird , whom he had worked with before and of whom he was fond , spent most nights up at the hospital knitting in the waiting-room while Dotty ministered to poor old Dickie St Ives , and although he respected Mary Deare as a performer — she was possibly the best Peter since Nina Boucicault — she had never been a chum . |
| 24 | She had never been a tense or anxious person . |
| 25 | She had always been a self-sufficient woman , since the married years with Martin . |
| 26 | Eugénie had not long been an Empress , but she had always been a grandee of Spain , with all that implied in pride and good breeding . |
| 27 | There was , she found , a certain satisfaction to be got from standing behind a counter ; she had always been a customer , at the receiving end , until now . |
| 28 | To him until then she had always been a safe comforting haven ; complete and seemingly self-sufficient in herself , she had always been an unfailing source of reassurance , ever ready to pour unquestioning love and affection on him in his moments of need . |
| 29 | She had always been a confident , outgoing person . |
| 30 | Whatever her situation , she had still been a human being , entitled to warmth and shelter and protection . |