Example sentences of "she had been [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then .
2 She had been stabbed several times .
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 Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs .
5 I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice .
6 She had been imagining this meeting for some time .
7 For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films .
8 She had been widowed some time when we met . ’
9 The jokes between her father , mother and older brother had been adult , almost risqué ; she had been allowed several glasses of champagne without a reproachful look , and her rather revealing décolletage had passed without comment .
10 If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit .
11 In those days of waiting , she had been spared any dread of Robert 's approaching her .
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