Example sentences of "her [noun pl] had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her reactions had been childish , the behaviour of a spoiled brat , but he had a cheek to point it out when he was only an employee of her father 's . |
| 2 | Once her doubts had been satisfied and the door unchained and unbolted , her attitude was one of reproachful expectancy . |
| 3 | But her protestations had been unfulfilled ; she had not forgotten . |
| 4 | If her eyes had been open , she would have seen Zeno heading for the cliff path . |
| 5 | Her eyes had been open in a fixed and vacant stare , and the waxen tinge to her skin had told its own tale . |
| 6 | She had found it in them perhaps more securely than in the friends she had made in other colleges , with whom her relationships had been complicated by sex . |
| 7 | She was a big woman , yet her movements had been precise , almost delicate . |
| 8 | Her parents had been warm and affectionate people and , as far as she could remember , she had been quite happy as a child . |
| 9 | She told me that her parents had been kind and loving and that , when her two younger brothers were born after the war , she had got on with them quite well apart from the normal childish disagreements . |
| 10 | If her cheeks had been hot when he arrived , they were on fire now . |
| 11 | Now that she had calmed down it was very clear to her that her actions had been rash , to say the least . |
| 12 | I wish now her suspicions had been correct . |
| 13 | Her tears had been angry tears at first , but now they were sad and bitter . |
| 14 | Only a few of her friends had been active in the Resistance , but it was clear that neither they nor anyone else much wanted to talk about the choices they had all had to make . |
| 15 | Her hands had been clammy and her breathing irregular , but a small brandy had helped to settle her nerves . |
| 16 | Her clothes had been wet through . |
| 17 | ‘ I wonder who you truly are ? ’ he queried in the same soft voice that proved that her thoughts had been correct . |
| 18 | She had n't been able to sleep at all the night before for thinking of him , and some of her thoughts had been unprintable . |
| 19 | Jennifer 's illness had had its effect on her too ; lately her nerves had been bad and she had n't been sleeping . |
| 20 | He suddenly felt some sympathy for her : her intentions had been evil but Jane could hardly have foreseen the appalling results of her maliciousness — if indeed Jim Lancaster had stormed off and murdered his wife . |