Example sentences of "she had [be] standing " in BNC.
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1 | She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action . |
2 | She had been standing on her own , holding a teacup in front of her , not looking about her , but rather fixedly out of the window , as though she expected no one to approach and invited no one . |
3 | At once it opened , as if she had been standing there waiting for the summons . |
4 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
5 | She had been standing alone , hatted , pulling on her gloves , ready to go out . |
6 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
7 | But although she had been standing there just a moment before , there was no sign of Izzie . |
8 | And then a sound , as if she had been standing next to a huge thunderclap . |
9 | Nurse Motley said that except for a moment when she picked up a piece of paper and threw it in the bin , she had been standing by Kayley 's head the whole time . |