Example sentences of "she [vb past] [been] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been a disaster and let Ricky down . |
| 2 | In the 1920s , she 'd been a great beauty and a sharp dresser . |
| 3 | She 'd been a lace mender before she married your father ? |
| 4 | She 'd been a schoolteacher once , she told him . |
| 5 | She 'd been a sort of feminist before it became fashionable ; never had much time for all that sisterly stuff , but she was positive she was as good as any man and she 'd prove it … |
| 6 | Her mum would never had done anything so untidy or indiscreet , and she 'd been a Tory all her life . |
| 7 | Maybe people thought that since she 'd been a witch when alive , she 'd be a ghost once she was dead . |
| 8 | Maybe people thought that since she 'd been a witch when alive , she 'd be a ghost once she was dead . |
| 9 | In real life she 'd been a poor shepherdess who lived in a dungeon and had asthma . |
| 10 | If she 'd been a man . |
| 11 | It was not necessary for him to know that she 'd been a widow for years . |
| 12 | She feigned enthusiasm , but what she was really thinking was that she 'd been a fool to hope he 'd come here on a more personal mission . |
| 13 | ‘ She 'd been a bit bored , ’ she said . |
| 14 | All right , so she 'd been a bit odd since Ryan had left . |
| 15 | All right , so she 'd been a misery and hermit-like — was n't she entitled to be ? |
| 16 | On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries . |
| 17 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 18 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 19 | It was n't IMP 's fault , or hers , that he had started at Jerez in third position , but she 'd been a convenient whipping-boy for his suspicions . |
| 20 | She could find nothing to say , and as she sat avoiding his eyes she realised she 'd been a fool . |
| 21 | Meg realized she 'd been a complete fool . |
| 22 | Perhaps she 'd been a little in love with him , or at least his image . |
| 23 | He moved lithely , carrying her with no more effort than if she 'd been a baby . |
| 24 | Yet though she knew she 'd been a fool and totally lacking in self-control , still tangled in the sensual web he 'd spun so effortlessly , she could n't regret it . |
| 25 | She 'd even felt the odd pang of nostalgia for the old days when she 'd been a young wet-behind-the-ears singer , just beginning to make her way up the ladder . |
| 26 | She 'd been a fool , a stupid crazy fool , too blinded by love to see that she was being used , too mesmerised by longing to realise Adam wanted only her body . |
| 27 | She 'd been a fool to think one polite little apology would be enough to put everything right between them . |
| 28 | Yeah , well what I think he , I think he will emulsion over it cos I mean the ceiling 's a bit , as you say she 'd been a smoker |
| 29 | at Claire 's , yeah , er , she 'd been a passenger and somebody had come into them and oh she was in a hell of a state , all , lucky to be alive really , she nearly lost erm , her arm and everything , lost , nearly lost the use of her arm , she 's had a lot of facial surgery stuff and that and all her teeth had been knocked out and oh she was in hospital for months and months |
| 30 | When she 'd called him , she 'd been no closer to Vine Street than the corridor pay phone just around the corner . |