Example sentences of "she had [been] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mabel was in the habit of throwing missiles at the Bargees and lightermen in her earlier years and one day she had been aiming coke at a local lighterman , Ben Johnson . |
| 2 | She had been supervising classes at the Manchester school and was , in fact , the Miss Walker that Anne Liddy remembered making her up on tour . |
| 3 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 4 | She had been undergoing treatment for over six months now . |
| 5 | She had been spitting blood after a bad bout of coughing , but one look at the sputum told me it was clean blood . |
| 6 | I have never known anyone work like it — and I discovered today that she had been writing articles for the Clarion Cry at midnight on top of everything else she did in the house . |
| 7 | Dorothea Gilberd edged away from the parents to whom she had been uttering words of reassurance about their little Philip 's future and glided quite at random in the direction of Tom Tedder . |
| 8 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 9 | Jobless Mohammed Aylaus , of Surbiton , Surrey , nabbed after The People handed evidence to police , threatened to shoot a prostitute and her children when he discovered she had been witholding money from him , Reading Crown Court was told . |
| 10 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 12 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 13 | She had been cooking rice for supper . |
| 14 | She had been carrying Maura down the stairs and had heard the policeman 's remark . |
| 15 | There , on the deep-piled carpet of the elegant apartment on rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré , she had been making love to a man incarcerated in the slums of Beirut . |
| 16 | She had been having fits of anger , and had been neglecting her children , I was told . |
| 17 | As the only bridesmaid , she had been following Liz up the aisle of the small country church , nervously clutching her bouquet of trailing greenery and praying that she would n't make the awful mistake of treading on the long train of Liz 's wedding dress . |
| 18 | She had been interviewing people since nine that morning and was tired . |
| 19 | Andrew Walker was bound to have Veronica 's address and telephone number but a request for them , so soon after she had been asking questions about the woman 's husband , might well arouse his suspicions . |
| 20 | She had been studying architecture in Paris when he first met her in 1958 . |
| 21 | She had thought she had been keeping watch on the creeping grey-streaked matter , but it had moved suddenly , the embryonic fingers clutching the ground , pulling the oozing , mucousy river forward until it was bubbling over her feet . |