Example sentences of "she [vb past] [be] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 2 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 3 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 4 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 5 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 6 | Nothing she damaged was making any difference . |
| 7 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 8 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 9 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 10 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 11 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 12 | She had been experiencing considerable feelings of grief about her husband and had been able to cry on occasions . |
| 13 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 14 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 15 | She had been working full time in a local factory for the past 8 years and usually enjoyed good relationships with her friends . |
| 16 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 17 | She had been noting various titles during Joyce 's discourse ; there was a new book about bats that Edward would want , and one or two things she would like to get hold of herself — the sole perquisite of this trade was a surreptitious early pick of incoming titles before they went on the shelves . |