Example sentences of "she had be [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 2 | Constance had lost Ludo — something she had been dreading on the journey up from Florence — but she was not alarmed . |
| 3 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 4 | She had been working on them ever since she had got home , reading and re-reading the articles , but there was still no clue to unravel the mystery . |
| 5 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 6 | She had been sleeping on the same step for three nights . |
| 7 | She had been relying on her blade , her teeth and her hands for too long . |
| 8 | She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action . |
| 9 | She had been standing on her own , holding a teacup in front of her , not looking about her , but rather fixedly out of the window , as though she expected no one to approach and invited no one . |
| 10 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 11 | She had been sitting on the shingle staring out to sea , her arms clasped round her knees , Timmy lying asleep on the small rug beside her . |
| 12 | She had been sitting on the edge of the bed , and now she leaned forward to take the other woman 's hand again . |
| 13 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 14 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |