Example sentences of "she [vb past] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 2 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 3 | She 'd been wanting to be my best friend for ages . |
| 4 | She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . |
| 5 | She 'd replaced the receiver instantly and refused to tell him who she 'd been speaking to , but then , as now , there was something challenging in her expression . |
| 6 | And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about . |
| 7 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 8 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 9 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 10 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 11 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 14 | She had been talking to Lapointe , which no doubt explained why she had misheard . |
| 15 | She could n't remember who she had been talking to . |
| 16 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
| 17 | Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony . |
| 18 | She had been coming to Alexandria , to the Hotel Normandie , for a few weeks every spring for almost forty years . |
| 19 | Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years . |
| 20 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |