Example sentences of "she had been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , her feelings of hopelessness increased over the next 3 weeks and late one night , after she had been drinking alone , she took an overdose of the tranquillizer mixed with paracetamol and then went to bed . |
| 2 | She had been drinking far too long , too much . |
| 3 | Apart from a glass of lager at dinner she had been drinking only fruit juices , while Rune 's own consumption of lager had been only moderate , not enough to have much effect on a man of such highly tuned physique , she comforted herself . |
| 4 | She pulled off the scarf that she had been wearing round her head to protect her ears and prevent her hair getting into her eyes and mouth . |
| 5 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 6 | With this firmly decided , she made her way up to change out of the trousers and sweater she had been wearing all that long day . |
| 7 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 8 | She had been calling out to him , pleading , arms outstretched , ‘ Wait for me . |
| 9 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 10 | Hour after hour , the thoughts she had been pushing back came pouring out . |
| 11 | All the same , Glyn 's advice was hard to dismiss , and as Jenna got ready for bed in the silent house she reached the conclusion she had been pushing aside since the shock of the letter had settled . |
| 12 | Her face burned as she realised that while she had been soaring naïvely in previously unthought-of heights of bliss Luke Hunter had just been mentally carving another notch on his bed-post . |
| 13 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 14 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 15 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 16 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 17 | For her to have gone off with him like that showed she must still care for him and yet she had been looking so adoringly at Fernando on the yacht . |
| 18 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
| 19 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 20 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 21 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 22 | During much of that time she had been moving constantly , school friends , teachers and happy times discarded until she felt like a fugitive . |
| 23 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 24 | She had been riding along a road with a little girl and Clare 's small pony Kizzy on a leading rein . |
| 25 | There , among the junk mail and bills delivered while she had been riding out first lot , was an envelope written in a careful , neat hand . |
| 26 | Mr Wildish said she had been chatting cheerfully and was full of beans and looking forward to going home . |
| 27 | Since she had been drifting luxuriously into sleep , it took a second for the voice to register , but when it did , it acted like a bucket of ice-cold water flung over her sun-warmed limbs , and she jack-knifed upright , her eyes wide with shock . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It must have felt lonely when a respected customer ( whose name was not exposed even to me ) dropped from under her coat the bag of flour she had been concealing there . |
| 30 | In fact , she had been thinking along those lines herself . |