Example sentences of "she had [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article .
2 She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly .
3 But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life .
4 She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick .
5 Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career .
6 She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’
7 She had been to most of the early-morning markets as far as Hyères .
8 She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter :
9 She had been through enough already .
10 She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things .
11 The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that .
12 She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl .
13 If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed .
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