Example sentences of "she had [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been right of course . |
| 2 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 3 | She had been completely on Daisy 's side , from the very beginning . |
| 4 | She had been completely against the war , right from the start . |
| 5 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 6 | She had been just in time . |
| 7 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 8 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 9 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 10 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 11 | She had been away from work for eight years and her second child was starting school when she saw an advertisement for a part-time market research executive . |
| 12 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 13 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 14 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 15 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 16 | There were so many more than when she had been here with Morthen . |
| 17 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 18 | She had been almost in delirium , consumed with an animal desire . |
| 19 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 20 | Since his sly suggestions of Thursday midnight she had been unremittingly at war with him , though they still ostensibly shared a bed . |
| 21 | With his assistance she could return to that blessed , wondrous world of — when had it been ? — an hour ago , before disaster had fallen upon her , when she had been blissfully on her way to pin Miss Dallam into the dress that would make both their reputations in Frizingley for elegance . |
| 22 | She had been deeply in love with Piers , and still was . |
| 23 | Sister Cas. was not often bloodyminded , and this was the first time she had been so with me . |
| 24 | It was the first time she had been so near a man with sweet breath and the scent of success about him . |
| 25 | It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability . |
| 26 | She had been inside for a day . |
| 27 | He was too young to remember when it had been a school , though his mother could , she had been there as a pupil . |
| 28 | Then they were in the flat , the first time she had been there since leaving Oliver typing his letter the previous morning . |
| 29 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 30 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |