Example sentences of "she had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 32 | She had been joined by her two travelling companions . |
| 33 | On Jan. 31 , 1990 , Thatcher admitted that she had been misled about the extent of the subversion campaign , while on Feb. 7 the House of Commons select committee on defence announced that it was to hold an inquiry into the MOD 's handling of the affair . |
| 34 | She also toyed with a book she had been given as a Christmas present , In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine . |
| 35 | Shaken but still thinking straight , Lynsey remembered the advice she had been given on defusing difficult situations . |
| 36 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 37 | I received a call from another constituent who was frightened because she had been slapped with not one warrant sale but two , yet she had paid her poll tax . |
| 38 | Emily felt as though she had been slapped in the face . |
| 39 | She knew nothing of her condition ; the Colonel slipped the pills she had been prescribed into her hot drink at night , and she was unaware that she was taking medication . |
| 40 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 41 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 42 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 43 | She had been presented to him , rather in the way she had been presented to her mother , ten years ago , by a Jamaican midwife , in Queen Mary 's Hospital , Roehampton . |
| 44 | She had been presented to him , rather in the way she had been presented to her mother , ten years ago , by a Jamaican midwife , in Queen Mary 's Hospital , Roehampton . |
| 45 | In the interval , she had been presented to him . |
| 46 | It had been taken when she had been presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in the year . |
| 47 | She had been flying for twelve years , had studied with her father who flew Concorde as a senior British Airways captain , and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday . |
| 48 | She had been danced off her feet and had loved every second of it . |
| 49 | She had been rededicated at St Luke 's a year previous to that . |
| 50 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 51 | Miss Lowe had become very ill , her blood sugar level had fallen so low it was unrecordable in a test , and in hospital she had been diagnosed as suffering insulin-induced hypoglycaemia , lack of sugar in the blood . |
| 52 | When the door burst open he sat back on his heels and almost toppled over , and the child straightened up from where she had been thrust against the bed . |
| 53 | They suspected she had been poisoned at the party . |
| 54 | It was even claimed that she had been poisoned by an African wife by whom Maclean was credited with having had several children . |
| 55 | Not this breathtaking house , nor its even more breathtaking surroundings , and certainly not the warm , welcoming atmosphere she had been met with . |
| 56 | Miss Armstrong said that when she had visited Wolsingham Comprehensive School , one of the first users of the Echo on CD-Rom , she had been kept on her toes by the fact that the pupils were well-informed about things she had said and done . |
| 57 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 58 | If it was being pointed out to her that she had been born to a life of political responsibility and not simply pleasure by one member of the powerful and able house of Guise in France , the message was being reinforced from Scotland by another : her mother , Mary of Guise . |
| 59 | She had been born to a life of violence , desperation and death , but she had never believed corpses could walk , manshaped creatures could endure for thousands of years , or that another person 's mind could leak into your own . |
| 60 | She wondered how much of what she had been born with was left . |