Example sentences of "she had be [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 2 | She had been thinking about her future and discussing it with her parents , and all of them had decided to sell the shop . |
| 3 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 4 | It annoyed her even more that his continuing aristocratic demeanour disappointed her after the way she had been thinking about him . |
| 5 | She had been thinking about nothing else except this phone call for days now , wrestling with the conflict of emotions that were raging inside . |
| 6 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 7 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 8 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 9 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |