Example sentences of "she had [be] sitting " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fetched herself a packet of sandwiches from the counter and then came back to where she had been sitting . |
| 2 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |
| 3 | She had been sitting on the shingle staring out to sea , her arms clasped round her knees , Timmy lying asleep on the small rug beside her . |
| 4 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 5 | She had been sitting still in her seat . |
| 6 | She had been sitting on the edge of the bed , and now she leaned forward to take the other woman 's hand again . |
| 7 | It seemed that when he had arrested the thief , and reported to Sergia , she had been sitting in an ornate chair made of a local high-gloss hardwood . |
| 8 | She had no fire in her bedroom , where she had been sitting waiting for his call , and staring at the dying mistletoe . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 11 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 12 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |
| 13 | The phone rang at the other end , and was answered immediately , as though she had been sitting beside it , waiting . |