Example sentences of "she had [been] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been kneeling in an easy-chair to look at the painting at that side of the room and as she moved he suddenly looked across at her intently , his face moody . |
| 2 | She sang as well as she could , hitting the right notes — she never had any problem with that — but it was pretty dreadful singing , so lifeless and uninspired , not the way she had been singing during the weeks before Gesner 's arrival . |
| 3 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 4 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 5 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 6 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 7 | She had been hoping for a ‘ jobs Budget ’ to fulfil a great need in East Anglia where there had been a big increase in unemployment . |
| 8 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 9 | Constance had lost Ludo — something she had been dreading on the journey up from Florence — but she was not alarmed . |
| 10 | She had been thinking of the three men downstairs , though perhaps one could hardly count John as being in the running . |
| 11 | This time there was no mistaking the command , but , short of trying out one of the manoeuvres she had been learning in a regular martial arts class , there was n't much she could do about it . |
| 12 | Jay 's rainbow wings fluttered around a sun-sparkling river that had become her life , where she had been moping by an old canal full of dead shopping trolleys for years . |
| 13 | ‘ Present from Alan behind the bar , ’ said Sarah , drawing out the glass she had been holding behind the frilly apron the waitresses at the Right and Wrong had to wear . |
| 14 | Robyn took a sip and wished she had been listening from the beginning . |
| 15 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 16 | She had been living with the Wilsons for nearly three months . |
| 17 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
| 18 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 19 | She had been suffering from the disease for a year . |
| 20 | She had been working at the Hopeland missionary camp , helping educate teenage boys . |
| 21 | Edith Thomas was married at seventeen : she had been working as a barmaid at the Miner 's Arms and she was married from there . |
| 22 | Hyacinth , happily unused to the ways of the more unscrupulous telly interviewer , promptly stuck a roll of paper she had been carrying into the broadcaster 's eye , thus bringing the proceedings to a close . |
| 23 | She had been meaning for an age to get a dimmer fitted . |
| 24 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 25 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 26 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 27 | She had been sleeping on the same step for three nights . |
| 28 | She had never mentioned that she possessed musical ability , so the crew listened spellbound for a few minutes as she played the carol ‘ Silent Night , Holy Night ’ , as though she had been rehearsing for a month . |
| 29 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 30 | Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years . |