Example sentences of "[pron] she had been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 2 | There would be no need to tell them she had been driving very fast . |
| 3 | It turned out that she was a freelance editor for OUP , with a daughter in her early teens and a seven-year-old son for whom she had been caring single-handedly since her husband 's untimely death . |
| 4 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 5 | She had been in the royal straitjacket for five years and , like most women who marry and have children when they are very young , she began to realize what she had been missing out on . |
| 6 | She remembered quite clearly what she had been doing scarce ten minutes ago . |