Example sentences of "[pron] she had [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 2 | Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car . |
| 3 | If his hair swayed into her face as they settled in the bus she wanted to hold it , to rub her cheek on it , to put it to her lips , and she thought there would be no pleasure in the world like giving in to him , which she had been anticipating with impatience but anxiety for so long . |
| 4 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 5 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 6 | She could n't remember who she had been talking to . |
| 7 | Constance had lost Ludo — something she had been dreading on the journey up from Florence — but she was not alarmed . |
| 8 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 9 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 10 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 11 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 12 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
| 13 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 14 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |