Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 2 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 3 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |
| 4 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 5 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 6 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 7 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 8 | Last night , she had taken one of the wolfdogs that had been following her for weeks . |
| 9 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |
| 10 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 11 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 12 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |