Example sentences of "she had been [v-ing] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 2 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 3 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 4 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 5 | She had been fighting this insidious physical attraction , trying to deny its existence ever since they 'd met . |