Example sentences of "she had been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | She had been talking to Lapointe , which no doubt explained why she had misheard . |
| 6 | She could n't remember who she had been talking to . |
| 7 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
| 8 | Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony . |
| 9 | She had been coming to Alexandria , to the Hotel Normandie , for a few weeks every spring for almost forty years . |
| 10 | Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years . |
| 11 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |