Example sentences of "she had been [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 2 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 3 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 4 | She had been fighting this insidious physical attraction , trying to deny its existence ever since they 'd met . |
| 5 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |