Example sentences of "she had [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 2 | She had been calling out to him , pleading , arms outstretched , ‘ Wait for me . |
| 3 | Her face burned as she realised that while she had been soaring naïvely in previously unthought-of heights of bliss Luke Hunter had just been mentally carving another notch on his bed-post . |
| 4 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 5 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 6 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 7 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
| 8 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 9 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 10 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 11 | Since she had been drifting luxuriously into sleep , it took a second for the voice to register , but when it did , it acted like a bucket of ice-cold water flung over her sun-warmed limbs , and she jack-knifed upright , her eyes wide with shock . |
| 12 | She had been thinking more about her companion since the death of Spike . |
| 13 | She had been eating mechanically until now — the vol-au-vent , some olives , a sliver of cheese — trying unsuccessfully to drown the sensation of Tom 's kiss that she could still taste and feel so strongly on her lips , but , as soon as she bit into the juicy chicken wing with its sizzling red coating of spiced crumbs , her mouth began to burn with a very different feeling . |
| 14 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 15 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 16 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 17 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
| 18 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 19 | She resisted adding that she had been working overtime on his designs . |
| 20 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 21 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 22 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 23 | She was embarrassed , realizing that she had been sounding exactly like Nina . |
| 24 | She had been walking away from him towards the path that led to the gate and she turned her head and said , ‘ Did n't want to disturb you ; you looked so peaceful , asleep . ’ |
| 25 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 26 | She and Jack , the boy she had been walking out with , were saving up so that they could buy the shop from old Mr Peabody , who wanted to retire . |
| 27 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 28 | Somehow she managed to take a proper breath , not the little shallow gasps she had been giving up to now . |
| 29 | A few hours earlier she had been grinding wearily at Latin prose composition , when she had caught a shocked glimpse of her pinched , haggard face in the mirror . |
| 30 | It turned out that she was a freelance editor for OUP , with a daughter in her early teens and a seven-year-old son for whom she had been caring single-handedly since her husband 's untimely death . |