Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] [v-ing] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth ( because I had been defending her ) came to visit me . |
| 2 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 3 | But it still left the question of who had been ringing her . |
| 4 | Mrs Phelps , who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks , now got up from her desk and went over to her . |
| 5 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 6 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |
| 7 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 8 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 9 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 10 | You see , he knew if they had taken him in and it was proved he had been using her , or , as a little bird told me , he had got her ready for shipment , they would have surely sent him along the line this time , and stripped the house of all his fine pieces . |
| 11 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 12 | He had seen that when he had been watching her ; had seen how she looked at everything with that curious , almost arrogant stare of hers . |
| 13 | He had been watching her without a flicker of expression . |
| 14 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 15 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 16 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 17 | And yet it was only a short time since he had been kissing her . |
| 18 | A moment later he had been dragging her , tray and all , through one of the doors into the vast ballroom . |
| 19 | He had been studying her . |
| 20 | So , he had been winding her up about their sharing the same bed , amusing himself at her expense ! |
| 21 | Marc had already admitted he had been leading her on to see what she would do . |
| 22 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 23 | Was it annoyance that he had been avoiding her , as she had been avoiding him ? |
| 24 | Harriet Jarman sat erect as if the noise had helped her solve whatever had been troubling her . |