Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 2 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 3 | Fabia was seated in the back of the Mercedes , with Ivo driving down into the valley , when the smile which had been sporting about her mouth suddenly froze . |
| 4 | Two days later , the most beautiful bloom burst forth which appeared to mimic a flow 3D diagram Margaret had been producing on her computer ! |
| 5 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 6 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 7 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
| 8 | She had been thinking about her future and discussing it with her parents , and all of them had decided to sell the shop . |
| 9 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 10 | Lily looked as though she had been thinking for her whole family all her life ; she was younger , by far , than she appeared . |
| 11 | Irina , who had been holding in her hand the red saucepan earlier referred to by Ludens , put it down and said , ‘ Oh . ’ |
| 12 | Ruth drew a deep breath , summoned all her courage , and blurted out the question which had been churning in her mind day and night for some time . |
| 13 | Nurse Lewis had been chewing with her eyes shut . |
| 14 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for her electricity bill . |
| 15 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 16 | The last few days he had been getting on her nerves . |
| 17 | Liz , a 25-year-old single woman , had been living on her own for the previous year in a flat above a small craft shop that she ran together with her mother . |
| 18 | Margaret , who had been living with her married sister in Oxford , soon came to join her mother . |
| 19 | The Sun identified the exact hospital and also mentioned how the wife had been living with her mother in a named town since her husband 's arrest . |
| 20 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 21 | Mrs Hepburn said she had been living with her husband at the time of the alleged crimes but was now in the process of divorcing him . |
| 22 | Isolated from her sons , Diana had been expecting a visit from Gilbey at Althorp House where she had been staying with her brother , Charles . |
| 23 | In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died . |
| 24 | She realised now that — as always when this dream occurred — she had been crying in her sleep , for her cheeks were wet . |
| 25 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 26 | Rather desperately , Celia steered the conversation round to her and Brian 's new house in the country , how Alison and Geoffrey must come and stay , that they would be less than fifty miles apart ; while Alison , obviously thankful to turn to less delicate matters , regaled her with a description of all she had been doing in her garden and some rather dull anecdotes about the neighbours whom Celia and Brian had met on their last visit . |
| 27 | It was sexual excitement — an element that had been missing from her life for too long . |
| 28 | Four days ago in a similar quiet period she had been gossiping with her uncle , listening to his barbed comments on affairs , on the art world , and on his family . |
| 29 | She was worried about a pair of wild barn owls : they had been nesting in her barn for years and she knew there were young up there , but had n't seen the parent birds going in and out for several days . |
| 30 | She had been relying on her blade , her teeth and her hands for too long . |