Example sentences of "she had [been] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 2 | She had been flying for twelve years , had studied with her father who flew Concorde as a senior British Airways captain , and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday . |
| 3 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 4 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 5 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 6 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
| 7 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 8 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 9 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 10 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 11 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 12 | She had been working since seven in the morning . |
| 13 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |
| 14 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 15 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 16 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 17 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 18 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 19 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 20 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |
| 21 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 22 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 23 | She had been gesturing with one hand , to emphasize what she said . |
| 24 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 25 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 26 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |