Example sentences of "she had [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 2 | She had been at one of the best State schools in England , where she would still be , no doubt , but for what Toby had heard referred to as an Incident . |
| 3 | Back in the main sitting room where she had been at first she was introduced to Antonietta 's husband Gennaro who was the head of the household . |
| 4 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 5 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 6 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 7 | She had been with fitzAlan and — |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well she had been on one or two things , not a lot on the television but er , we . |
| 10 | She had been to Nice countless times . |
| 11 | She had been to one of their meetings , and was even more confirmed not only in the conviction that they were right , but that her own group should get involved in trying to organise women to campaign for wages for housework . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’ |
| 14 | She had been to most of the early-morning markets as far as Hyères . |
| 15 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | At first appraisal , Great Britain was , in 1914 , undisputed mistress of the seas , as she had been since 1805 when Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar . |
| 18 | She had been through enough already . |
| 19 | She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things . |
| 20 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 21 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 22 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 23 | Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals . |
| 24 | 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 . |