Example sentences of "she had [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 2 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
| 3 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 4 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 5 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 6 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 7 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 8 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 9 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |