Example sentences of "[conj] she had [been] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 2 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 3 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 4 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 5 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 6 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 7 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 8 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 11 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 12 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 13 | Lily looked as though she had been thinking for her whole family all her life ; she was younger , by far , than she appeared . |
| 14 | She had never mentioned that she possessed musical ability , so the crew listened spellbound for a few minutes as she played the carol ‘ Silent Night , Holy Night ’ , as though she had been rehearsing for a month . |
| 15 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 16 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |