Example sentences of "she had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 2 | PRINCESS Diana was at the centre of a mystery last night after a US paper claimed she had been recorded chatting to a man declaring his love for her . |
| 3 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 4 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 5 | She had been trained to survive ; to do things instinctively . |
| 6 | She had been trained to hunt and then not used , so I 've had to start training her again . |
| 7 | I said she had been trained properly , I was telling them just basically about Claire in general and just about the good of erm , things like things you like to talk about , and erm , so I just , I said , they cried poverty , I said , but you know , one minute she 's driving her old banger , and the next minute she 's got a K reg and outside the , |
| 8 | She had been kneeling in an easy-chair to look at the painting at that side of the room and as she moved he suddenly looked across at her intently , his face moody . |
| 9 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |
| 10 | She had been indicted on numerous corruption charges since her return to the Philippines , as the government continued to attempt to recover some of the millions of dollars which she and her husband allegedly looted from the country during their years in power . |
| 11 | She had been to see the inspector in charge of her father 's murder case . |
| 12 | That afternoon she had been to see her doctor in Paris . |
| 13 | She had been to see Enter the Dragon and started to tell him all about the code of kung fu as he hurried her upstairs . |
| 14 | As the man unfolded his tall frame and stood up , slinging a dusty jacket over one broad shoulder , Folly realised how right she had been to see him as formidable . |
| 15 | A BORDON woman drove home from Four Marks after she had been drinking because she was anxious to get home to her child , Alton magistrates were told . |
| 16 | However , her feelings of hopelessness increased over the next 3 weeks and late one night , after she had been drinking alone , she took an overdose of the tranquillizer mixed with paracetamol and then went to bed . |
| 17 | Her mother 's breath had been sour as it always was when she had been drinking . |
| 18 | Katherine put down the empty glass with a start , she had n't realized that she had been drinking . |
| 19 | It looked at first as if she had been drinking blood . |
| 20 | Apart from a glass of lager at dinner she had been drinking only fruit juices , while Rune 's own consumption of lager had been only moderate , not enough to have much effect on a man of such highly tuned physique , she comforted herself . |
| 21 | She had been drinking far too long , too much . |
| 22 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 23 | Because she had been exposed to the luxury end of the market , much of what she found at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ appalled her . |
| 24 | There were stories that she had been eaten by wild animals , but John Ward did n't believe it . |
| 25 | But the getting of that child was not the pleasurable romp she had been led to believe , and her pregnancy was a sick one . |
| 26 | He saw her dust devil from a long way away , and knew that she had been led here by her own dreams , by the pull of the moon . |
| 27 | It would n't have mattered so much if the nights had brought the compensations she had been led to expect . |
| 28 | At first they seemed brighter , smaller and cruder than she had been led to expect by the polite reproductions . |
| 29 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |
| 30 | She had been led to believe this was the case but a phone call from the office of Mr Ian Frost , regional director of Inntrepreneur , part of Grand Met , said the meeting would be in Tadcaster or Halifax . |