Example sentences of "she had [been] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been intending to go in five minutes ' time , when she had drunk her cup of weak tea . |
| 2 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 3 | Though , since her denial was hardly any excuse for the way she had been trying to bolt to her room , she felt honour-bound to give him just as straightforward an explanation . |
| 4 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 5 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |
| 6 | The fan that she had been waving stopped in mid motion and clicked shut . |
| 7 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |
| 8 | She had no fire in her bedroom , where she had been sitting waiting for his call , and staring at the dying mistletoe . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness . |
| 10 | She resolutely pushed away the memory of Dr Neil and the life which she had been going to share with him . |