Example sentences of "early she have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had left Madam Lundy 's presence earlier she had been shivering with reaction , but that had now passed , leaving her calm , her options clear . |
| 2 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 3 | Briar Cottage no longer seemed like home ; like the cottage where eleven years earlier she had been born . |
| 4 | One year earlier she had been seen in our hospital for joint pain and skin lesions on the lower legs which resembled erythema nodosum . |
| 5 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 6 | A few hours earlier she had been grinding wearily at Latin prose composition , when she had caught a shocked glimpse of her pinched , haggard face in the mirror . |
| 7 | Twenty-four hours earlier she had been admitted to the Royal London Hospital , Whitechapel after a fall at her home in Stepney . |
| 8 | Thirty minutes earlier she had been going up the stairs to read the newspaper on the toilet . |