Example sentences of "[Wh det] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 8 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |