Example sentences of "how she had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how she had been brought up . |
| 2 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 3 | That was how she had been known as a child when people had contrasted her with her sister Paula . |
| 4 | Despite describing a happy childhood , she told her therapist about how she had been brought up in a family where she felt unappreciated and undervalued . |
| 5 | They named their eldest son Benjamin , after his maternal grandfather , and she would tell the young lad when he grew up of how she had been taught piano and organ by Benjamin James her father , there in that big house in Curry Rivel where they used to hang hams or sides of bacon in the huge chimney piece . |
| 6 | Amelia McLean described how she had been " waylaid … on [ her ] way home for dinner " by Mr Evans of the W. and C.U. , who " after calling her … everything but a lady , had said she was the most unsympathetic woman in Edinburgh " . |
| 7 | Now , when Beth smiled knowingly , the girl saw how she had been manipulated , and soon the two of them were laughing . |
| 8 | The door of the bookcase was open but there were no other signs of how she had been engaged . |
| 9 | She shouted at those waiting about how she had been unjustly treated . |
| 10 | Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches . |
| 11 | What haunted her was the way he had kissed her — and how she had been unable to do anything but respond ! |
| 12 | The doting grandmother smiled and chatted about how easily the little boy had accepted her , about how she had been worried he might shy away , but how he had gone straight to her . |