Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [been] born " in BNC.

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1 Where she had been born ?
2 If she 'd been born on time this party would n't have happened until Christmas .
3 If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic .
4 She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life .
5 Yet Gemma had shown no more than a polite interest in Almsmead while Linnet , who was very dear but not Gemma , after all , had positively thrown herself into all the excitements of housebuilding and furnishing , taking to Far Flatley as if she had been born there .
6 She had a heart operation just 3 days after she 'd been born .
7 A post morteum revealled she 'd died from a large fracture of the skull , soon after she 'd been born .
8 The case of Mary Ann Titford , née Parkes , is fairly typical in this respect : her grandchildren , still alive in the 1980s as this story is being written , remember her well , though she had been born as long ago as 1849 .
9 Mrs Carr had good reason to take such a stance as she had been born without arms .
10 Nor was this surprising , for she had been born on the shortest day of the year , which is the sun 's birthday also .
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