Example sentences of "[conj] she 'd been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 2 | She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’ |
| 3 | I felt that her character had been revealed and , what was more , that she 'd been using me . |
| 4 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 5 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 6 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 7 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 8 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 9 | The summer school job that she 'd been relying on had been cancelled at the very last minute and other temporary jobs were a bit thin on the ground . |
| 10 | Miss Malabedeely had been kneeling by a chair , praying , and Kate had thought immediately that she 'd been asking God to stop Miss Shaw and Miss Rist being so unpleasant to her . |
| 11 | She had n't realized until she was bumping along the road away from the dock that she 'd been shaking like an aspen leaf . |
| 12 | The handkerchief that she 'd been twisting and untwisting at our first interview came out again , this time to her eyes . |
| 13 | Dawson was aware that she 'd been combating a bout of ill-temper since he 'd arrived . |
| 14 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 15 | She knew that I 'd have to keep Dawn in my bedroom to start with , and she 'd been beginning to have second thoughts about letting me do that . |
| 16 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 17 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 18 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 19 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |
| 20 | And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about . |
| 21 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 22 | Cos she 'd been wanting to do Aladdin for a couple of years but it was on at The Playhouse |
| 23 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 24 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
| 25 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
| 26 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 27 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 28 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 29 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 30 | she only has a biscuit , sometimes she 'll bring scones or cake or , if she 'd been baking |