Example sentences of "[vb past] she 'd been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only then she realised she 'd been holding her breath . |
| 2 | Virginia realised she 'd been gripping the steering-wheel unnecessarily tightly and consciously relaxed , forcing a laugh and wincing as the vibration worsened her headache . |
| 3 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 4 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 5 | She discovered she 'd been sleeping on her back . |
| 6 | He stopped and went on in a low voice , ‘ I came back early from school and when I came in I saw she 'd been crying . ’ |
| 7 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 8 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 9 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 10 | ‘ She said she 'd been peeling onions . |
| 11 | When she said she 'd been going to visit her friend , there 'd been no friend . |
| 12 | But er she said she 'd been feeling a bit rough recently . |
| 13 | She said she 'd been babysitting , but then and the doors and and and I this filthy , filthy , dirty letter somebody had written to her , some other girl |
| 14 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |
| 15 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |