Example sentences of "she had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 2 | She had been kneeling in an easy-chair to look at the painting at that side of the room and as she moved he suddenly looked across at her intently , his face moody . |
| 3 | She had been indicted on numerous corruption charges since her return to the Philippines , as the government continued to attempt to recover some of the millions of dollars which she and her husband allegedly looted from the country during their years in power . |
| 4 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 5 | Because she had been exposed to the luxury end of the market , much of what she found at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ appalled her . |
| 6 | There were stories that she had been eaten by wild animals , but John Ward did n't believe it . |
| 7 | Both were nuns in the same religious order , one in the north of England , the other in France where she had been interned throughout the Occupation . |
| 8 | Her response — such a lighting up of her face — made me remember how few times it was likely she had been kissed in her whole life : not as a child , by the parents who had given her away ; not by her old foster parents ; not often , I guessed , even by Beatrice and her boys . |
| 9 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 10 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 11 | She was also advised that she should continue to try to reduce weight and should not return to her work ( which involved standing all the time ) until she had been seen in the Outpatient Clinic in six weeks time . |
| 12 | She stayed away for two weeks , and there were reports that she had been seen in Bath with Sergeant Troy . |
| 13 | One year earlier she had been seen in our hospital for joint pain and skin lesions on the lower legs which resembled erythema nodosum . |
| 14 | She had been seen near Filey 's seafront but no trace has been found of her since . |
| 15 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 16 | Flavia managed to recall that she had been asked to dinner and that the time was eight . |
| 17 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 18 | She sang as well as she could , hitting the right notes — she never had any problem with that — but it was pretty dreadful singing , so lifeless and uninspired , not the way she had been singing during the weeks before Gesner 's arrival . |
| 19 | A JUDGE was forced to scrap a lengthy criminal trial after a woman juror claimed she had been threatened with the sack . |
| 20 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 21 | She said she had been threatened with hundreds of pickets if she did not reinstate Miss Owen . |
| 22 | The poor woman had died when she had been bombed in the blitz . |
| 23 | The eight-year-old , who gave evidence by closed-circuit television , said she had been tied to a bed by the men , who wore masks and ‘ did bad things ’ to her after putting Sellotape over her mouth . |
| 24 | Because she had been detached from it at the most traumatic moments , she had not been caused any distress but was well able to see how the combination of Daniel 's various experiences could have led to her phobia about water . |
| 25 | She had been intended for a respectable life . |
| 26 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 27 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 28 | She had been bludgeoned to death with a champagne bottle by her husband David , 48 , who then killed himself . |
| 29 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 30 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |