Example sentences of "what she had [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 .
2 You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place .
3 That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale .
4 And that , then , was what she had been waiting for .
5 This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now .
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