Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 2 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 3 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 6 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 7 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 8 | Roman had been holding her in his arms and she had n't been fighting — no wonder Dana was furious . |
| 9 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |
| 10 | The softly spoken threat cut through the haze fogging her brain and she sat bolt upright , knocking away the hand that had been caressing her into submission almost without her realising it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 13 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 14 | Mrs Phelps , who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks , now got up from her desk and went over to her . |
| 15 | He had been watching her without a flicker of expression . |
| 16 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 17 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 18 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 19 | Last night , she had taken one of the wolfdogs that had been following her for weeks . |
| 20 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |