Example sentences of "[subord] she had [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isolated from her sons , Diana had been expecting a visit from Gilbey at Althorp House where she had been staying with her brother , Charles . |
| 2 | Jay 's rainbow wings fluttered around a sun-sparkling river that had become her life , where she had been moping by an old canal full of dead shopping trolleys for years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 5 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 6 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 7 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 8 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 9 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 10 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 11 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 12 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 17 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 18 | When she had been wrestling with him she had used the foul language common among gypsies . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 21 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 22 | Lily looked as though she had been thinking for her whole family all her life ; she was younger , by far , than she appeared . |
| 23 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The phone rang at the other end , and was answered immediately , as though she had been sitting beside it , waiting . |
| 26 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 27 | 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 . |