Example sentences of "she had been [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been at a Women 's Aid conference in London all weekend , and she was tired and depressed . |
| 2 | If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy , all hell would break loose . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had been on a bus once and had seen Simon in a posh car pulling out of an ‘ executive ’ housing estate opposite the boating lake . |
| 5 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 6 | Ever since she had met him she had been on a roller-coaster , going up and down and swerving from one emotional crisis to another . |
| 7 | She had been on a refresher course . |
| 8 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 9 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 10 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 11 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 12 | Before Lesley met Alan , she had been to a party where she got drunk and ended up sleeping with someone without knowing it . |
| 13 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
| 14 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 15 | It had been a deep and tub-like pram , and they had used it to convey her from place to place long after she had been of an age to be confined in such a vehicle . |
| 16 | She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke . |
| 17 | ‘ Who are you trying to kid ? ’ he taunted , and somehow he seemed to know , though how she did n't know , that she had been within an ace of responding to him . |
| 18 | But she had been in a coma , she was n't mad . |
| 19 | She had been in a state of shock . |
| 20 | If Gloria , she had been in a smash . |
| 21 | As she moved , her body ached as if she had been in a fight . |
| 22 | She had been in a squat in London but had thought it would be pleasant to have some sea air for the baby for the summer . |
| 23 | Consultation with the next of kin has a further advantage in that it may reveal information as to the personal circumstances of the patient and as to the choice which the patient might have made , if he or she had been in a position to make it . |
| 24 | Half an hour ago she had been in a heaven of love with the enraged man before her . |
| 25 | If she had been in a similar position she would also have called on the nearest colleague . |
| 26 | Mr McBaine said , however , that she had been in a position of trust . |
| 27 | She had been like a barrier between Jessamy and her husband , not particularly important but always there , irritating and chafing , like a stone in the shoe . |
| 28 | She had been like a lazy cat , refusing to wake up properly , a phenomenon that he had known in young girls before . |