Example sentences of "she had [be] dreading " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course not , ’ her son said and then the moment she had been dreading came . |
| 2 | Constance had lost Ludo — something she had been dreading on the journey up from Florence — but she was not alarmed . |
| 3 | And at the same time she could sell the emeralds , a task she had been dreading . |
| 4 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
| 5 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 6 | She had been dreading the question ever since its loss . |
| 7 | The reprieve had been so quick and sudden and she had been dreading the conversation so much … |
| 8 | For the past two days she had been dreading the proximity this trip would involve , but gradually , as the car wound its way along the narrow mountain roads , she could feel herself beginning to relax . |
| 9 | Ever since she had realised that he was the new officer she had been dreading the moment they would have to actually start working together . |