Example sentences of "she had been [verb] [det] [noun sg] " 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 5 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In those days of waiting , she had been spared any dread of Robert 's approaching her . |