Example sentences of "she had [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been kneeling in an easy-chair to look at the painting at that side of the room and as she moved he suddenly looked across at her intently , his face moody . |
| 2 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 3 | She sang as well as she could , hitting the right notes — she never had any problem with that — but it was pretty dreadful singing , so lifeless and uninspired , not the way she had been singing during the weeks before Gesner 's arrival . |
| 4 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 5 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 6 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 7 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 8 | She had been flying for twelve years , had studied with her father who flew Concorde as a senior British Airways captain , and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday . |
| 9 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 10 | Joshua grabbed Hyacinth by the arm — she had been looking as if she were about to attack her victim 's other eye — and steered her away . |
| 11 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 12 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 13 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 14 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 15 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 16 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 17 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 18 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 19 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 20 | When she had left Madam Lundy 's presence earlier she had been shivering with reaction , but that had now passed , leaving her calm , her options clear . |
| 21 | She had been resting against his trunk and now he could see what had happened to it . |
| 22 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 23 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 24 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
| 25 | She had been intending for days to make a start on clearing out the cloakroom ; now was the moment — she would make a preliminary survey , set aside what should be kept , see if there was anything good enough for Oxfam . |
| 26 | She had been hoping for a ‘ jobs Budget ’ to fulfil a great need in East Anglia where there had been a big increase in unemployment . |
| 27 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 28 | In a totally uncharacteristic and confused way , she had been hoping against hope that Mrs Bennett would settle down in Hillmarden and come to terms with what she had called ‘ all them dark months ’ . |
| 29 | Then Luke materialised beside her , and with a shock of despair Merrill realised that , unconsciously , she had been watching for him . |
| 30 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |