Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] she had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 2 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 3 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 4 | Although he was horribly conscious of his filthy boots , he sought out the supervisor of the office cleaning company by which Mrs. Millings was employed , and explained that she was late only because she had been helping the police to investigate a river tragedy " like a good citizen " . |
| 5 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 6 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 7 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 8 | Andrew Walker was bound to have Veronica 's address and telephone number but a request for them , so soon after she had been asking questions about the woman 's husband , might well arouse his suspicions . |
| 9 | Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure I shall now , ’ Peony thought , the more bitterly because she had been repressing her disappointment . |
| 11 | I have never known anyone work like it — and I discovered today that she had been writing articles for the Clarion Cry at midnight on top of everything else she did in the house . |
| 12 | Even if she had been asking me to make love to her — which she was n't — the answer would very definitely have been no . |
| 13 | Nurse though she was , and even though she had been giving blood fairly regularly for several years now , Belinda never liked to watch the bag fill , so she managed to hold a magazine in her left hand . |
| 14 | Cecilia would have been very surprised indeed if she had been wearing anything but jeans and a sweater or T-shirt , and she was not . |
| 15 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |