Example sentences of "she had [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been calling out to him , pleading , arms outstretched , ‘ Wait for me . |
| 2 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 3 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 4 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 7 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 8 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 11 | She and Jack , the boy she had been walking out with , were saving up so that they could buy the shop from old Mr Peabody , who wanted to retire . |
| 12 | Somehow she managed to take a proper breath , not the little shallow gasps she had been giving up to now . |
| 13 | A few moments ago she had been burning up in his arms , caught up in the fever of his lovemaking , but now the blood seemed to have turned to ice in her veins , frozen by his uncaring tones . |
| 14 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 15 | She had been in the royal straitjacket for five years and , like most women who marry and have children when they are very young , she began to realize what she had been missing out on . |
| 16 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 17 | When she was nineteen she had been going out with a steady boyfriend for three years , and they had decided to get married . |