Example sentences of "[noun] she 'd been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 2 | Bernice quickly unrolled the bundle she 'd been carrying beneath her arm and thrust Ace 's blood-soaked jacket into the Doctor 's hands . |
| 3 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 4 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 5 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 6 | Ace asked in a tone that betrayed the worry she 'd been trying to hide . |
| 7 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 8 | Pulling a little face , she carefully folded the tea-towel she 'd been using and laid it on the work surface . |
| 9 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 10 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 11 | Heaven knew she 'd been the subject of enough prurient curiosity in the few short weeks she 'd been running the club . |
| 12 | Despite the lecture she 'd been reading herself , excitement had put colour in her cheeks and made her clear golden-brown eyes sparkle . |
| 13 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 14 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 15 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 16 | Jahsaxa swept into the tasteful reception room she 'd been keeping Roirbak and Tammuz waiting in for over half an hour . |
| 17 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 18 | But thinking about Guido and the race were two things she 'd been trying very hard not to do . |
| 19 | After the things she 'd been thinking , his touch would probably make her burst into flames . |
| 20 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 21 | Ten minutes later , dressed in a pair of grey trousers and the same red jacket she 'd been wearing yesterday , she was turning into the hotel car park , slotting her Mini quickly into one of the spaces , then striding resolutely towards the hotel 's main entrance . |
| 22 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 23 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 24 | Luce released the breath she 'd been holding . |
| 25 | It was too mortifying for words , and it intensified the vulnerable feeling she 'd been experiencing around Guy Sterne . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought that — wondered if it was — suicide because of this man she 'd been seeing , ’ Merrill said in a small voice . |
| 27 | What kind of incident she 'd been fearing she hardly liked to admit , even to herself . |
| 28 | All through the short plane journey she 'd been imagining what it would be like to meet Rune again socially . |
| 29 | Many had n't understood a word she 'd been saying . |
| 30 | It was the only thing she 'd been wearing that had n't come away when they undressed . |