Example sentences of "she [vb past] [been] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 2 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 3 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 4 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 5 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 6 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 7 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |
| 8 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 9 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 10 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 11 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |
| 12 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 13 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |