Example sentences of "she had [been] [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 3 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 6 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |