Example sentences of "she had [been] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 2 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
| 3 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 4 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 5 | I was sure she had been holding a small phial with the letters ‘ SUL ’ written on it . |
| 6 | She had been expecting a small , dusty room filled with paintings draped in cloths that were thick with dust , where air would have a musty scent of old canvas and decay . |
| 7 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |
| 8 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 9 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 10 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 11 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 12 | True to the word , she had been adding a full bottle to her small garden pond on a weekly basis , for the past month . |
| 13 | She had been rehearsing a new song on the way to the Ritz , but did n't know who wrote it . |
| 14 | She had been reviewing the previous week on her walk to the rectory . |