Example sentences of "that she had be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 2 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 3 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 4 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 5 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 6 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 7 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 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 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 10 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 11 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 12 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 13 | But now , when her mind travelled back , it was clear from the young man 's behaviour and some of the comments he had made that she had been suffering from myopia . |
| 14 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 15 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 16 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |