Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] she have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut . |
| 4 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 5 | She had n't realized until she was bumping along the road away from the dock that she 'd been shaking like an aspen leaf . |
| 6 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 7 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 8 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 9 | The fan that she had been waving stopped in mid motion and clicked shut . |
| 10 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 11 | He knew he had to turn his back on Crevecoeur , dreading the day he would see physical signs that SHe had been working . |
| 12 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 14 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 15 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 16 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 17 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 18 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 19 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 20 | Her pony-tail was weaving like a snake , and she was still dressed in blood-stained black armour and shiny leggings ; the same kit that she had been wearing when Ardamal and his section had dragged her , kicking and screaming , into the IMC executive transporter . |
| 21 | The summer school job that she 'd been relying on had been cancelled at the very last minute and other temporary jobs were a bit thin on the ground . |
| 22 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 23 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 24 | Another discovered she had toothache one evening as she had been clenching her teeth all afternoon ! |
| 25 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 26 | A Lebanese chauffeur who denies Kim 's manslaughter has told the court that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 27 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 28 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |
| 29 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 30 | A magazine lay on the floor beside a wicker chair where she had been sleeping . |