Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 3 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 4 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 5 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 6 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Lily looked as though she had been thinking for her whole family all her life ; she was younger , by far , than she appeared . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 14 | 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 . |