Example sentences of "what she [vb past] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead she pointed out what she thought was happening in the session and the need for all of them to look at the problems in a constructive way . |
| 2 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 3 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
| 4 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 5 | It was not what she had been expecting . |
| 6 | His voice was gravelly , deep , sure … and distinctly not what she had been expecting . |
| 7 | His words carried the ring of truth , and Folly felt a flush of shame at what she had been imagining . |
| 8 | She stood quivering in his grasp , terrified he might somehow guess what she had been thinking . |
| 9 | With a small smile that proved he knew very well what she had been thinking , he went out , and she tried to relax her tense muscles . |
| 10 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 11 | It was what she had been hoping and longing for but there was no surge of delight , only a strong but strangely detached sense of relief that the worst of his ordeal was over . |
| 12 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll mourn for it when we have time , ’ said Floy , touching her hand , and Fenella looked at him gratefully , because that was exactly what she had been feeling . |
| 14 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 15 | She had been in the royal straitjacket for five years and , like most women who marry and have children when they are very young , she began to realize what she had been missing out on . |
| 16 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 17 | Meredith told him what she had been doing since they last met and Markby gave a summary of his own activities . |
| 18 | They had watched her , in the council estate , they knew what she had been doing . |
| 19 | of course , that 's exactly what she had been doing . |
| 20 | Planning is just what she had been doing . |
| 21 | She remembered quite clearly what she had been doing scarce ten minutes ago . |
| 22 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 23 | That was what she had been going to say . |
| 24 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
| 25 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 26 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 27 | Then she was closing her eyes in an agony of resistance , as if making that hand invisible could prevent what she knew was going to happen . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other . |
| 30 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |