Example sentences of "if she had [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 2 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 3 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 4 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 5 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 8 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |