Example sentences of "she had been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 2 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 3 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 4 | She had been fastening the buttons at the shoulder of Thomas 's elephant-patterned pyjamas , but all sense of co-ordination suddenly seemed to vanish and her fingers fumbled in vain . |
| 5 | It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker . |
| 6 | She had been enjoying the evening at the Ritzy club in Streatham , south-west London . |
| 7 | Although he was horribly conscious of his filthy boots , he sought out the supervisor of the office cleaning company by which Mrs. Millings was employed , and explained that she was late only because she had been helping the police to investigate a river tragedy " like a good citizen " . |
| 8 | She had been watching the tumble-drier for ages and still her clothes were n't quite dry . |
| 9 | She had been watching the legion of black ants moving along the plain . |
| 10 | She had been dreading the question ever since its loss . |
| 11 | The reprieve had been so quick and sudden and she had been dreading the conversation so much … |
| 12 | For the past two days she had been dreading the proximity this trip would involve , but gradually , as the car wound its way along the narrow mountain roads , she could feel herself beginning to relax . |
| 13 | Ever since she had realised that he was the new officer she had been dreading the moment they would have to actually start working together . |
| 14 | She had been descending the stairs when she 'd slipped and had fallen down numerous steps . |
| 15 | Mrs Taylor said she had been urging the Government for months to make public a report by Mr Ponsford confirming the morale problems . |
| 16 | She had been trying the apartment since seven o'clock . |
| 17 | She had been expecting the news , because of her privileged position in the ‘ Petticoat Mafia ’ but it none-the-less visibly upset her . |
| 18 | She had been expecting the pool to be almost empty at that time of day and was surprised to see that there were about a dozen or so people in the water . |
| 19 | Charles was relieved that the information put her in the clear ; she had been telling the truth . |
| 20 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 21 | She had been letting the house to my father and mother , but they had now died also , and the whole property was to be sold : the house , yard , outbuildings , flower garden , kitchen garden , and a small meadow . |
| 22 | Only an hour ago she had been finishing the evening milking , peaceful in the milking house with Florence . |
| 23 | Already , when she had been making the tea , the first exhibit of the day had arrived , brought in no doubt by a detective constable working on the case . |
| 24 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 25 | Without realizing it she had been rubbing the area of skin which had touched the rat 's tail . |
| 26 | ‘ The Seraglio complex is through there , ’ her guide croaked , with as little drama as if she had been showing the way to the bathroom . |
| 27 | Probably , she had been studying the figures with too much intensity , and now she needed a break . |
| 28 | During the last half hour or so she had been pacing the room like a caged animal , insisting that the door should be kept ajar and the window opened wide . |
| 29 | ‘ That was my friend , Estelle , ’ Margrida said , coming out from the drawing-room where she had been answering the telephone . |
| 30 | She had been reviewing the previous week on her walk to the rectory . |