Example sentences of "she had been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because she had been exposed to the luxury end of the market , much of what she found at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ appalled her . |
| 2 | Flavia managed to recall that she had been asked to dinner and that the time was eight . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had been bludgeoned to death with a champagne bottle by her husband David , 48 , who then killed himself . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the interval , she had been presented to him . |
| 9 | It had been taken when she had been presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in the year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Eventually she had been sent to a psychiatrist to see if he could help discover the reason for what appeared to be a purely psychosomatic condition . |
| 13 | You know , Mrs Winkowski , girls will talk , and I suppose it was during one of Millie 's lonely periods while under the sisters that she confided in Annabel why she had been sent to the school . |
| 14 | She had been sent to an Orthodox Opus Dei school where religious education formed an important part of the curriculum , But , as she explained , she found that religion at her school was only designed to instil in her a sense of fear about sinning . |
| 15 | She could n't remember the details , only the sense of confusion that everything was different — the language , the schools she had been sent to one after another . |
| 16 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 17 | He tried to remember which school she had been sent to : Haileybury , was it ? |
| 18 | It had been no coincidence that she had been called to the phone in the weighing room . |
| 19 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 20 | She had been sentenced to three months in jail . |
| 21 | For this purpose she was admitted to a specialist residential unit for children and adolescents under the care of Dr. M. , a consultant psychiatrist whom she had first met when she had been referred to the family consultation clinic in 1987 . |
| 22 | At the onset she had been referred to a surgeon and had a normal barium enema and chest x ray . |
| 23 | She had been referred to a physician the year after surgery with chest and epigastric pain . |
| 24 | Breeze sat as if she had been turned to stone . |
| 25 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
| 26 | It was as though her father had died again , as though she had been injured to her soul . |
| 27 | She had been invited to ‘ do ’ a couple of mornings a week for Racy . |
| 28 | She had been invited to dinner on Sunday evening by another member of her women 's group , and she had promised to take a pudding . |
| 29 | I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up . |
| 30 | George told Geoffrey she had been engaged to Play Peter Pan in the next production . |