Example sentences of "she had been [v-ing] [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 4 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
| 10 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 11 | Edith Thomas was married at seventeen : she had been working as a barmaid at the Miner 's Arms and she was married from there . |
| 12 | She had been meaning for an age to get a dimmer fitted . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It seemed that when he had arrested the thief , and reported to Sergia , she had been sitting in an ornate chair made of a local high-gloss hardwood . |
| 16 | She had been yearning for a baby for 20 years after her only other child , another boy , was killed in a car crash as a teenager . |