Example sentences of "she had [be] writing " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 2 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 3 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 4 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 5 | She had been writing poems since her childhood , and at university was busy with poems , stories , editing the Smith Review , keeping up a high academic standard , and leading a full social life . |
| 6 | I have never known anyone work like it — and I discovered today that she had been writing articles for the Clarion Cry at midnight on top of everything else she did in the house . |