Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] she have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 2 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 3 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 4 | Often in the days when she had been touring , had not the same thing happened — and nothing thought of it ? |
| 5 | ‘ That was my friend , Estelle , ’ Margrida said , coming out from the drawing-room where she had been answering the telephone . |
| 6 | Biting her lip Amabel reproached herself thoroughly and sincerely for not having forced her to wear those whalebone stays all night when she had been growing up . |
| 7 | Only an hour ago she had been finishing the evening milking , peaceful in the milking house with Florence . |
| 8 | A few hours earlier she had been grinding wearily at Latin prose composition , when she had caught a shocked glimpse of her pinched , haggard face in the mirror . |
| 9 | When she had left Madam Lundy 's presence earlier she had been shivering with reaction , but that had now passed , leaving her calm , her options clear . |
| 10 | Thirty minutes earlier she had been going up the stairs to read the newspaper on the toilet . |
| 11 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |
| 12 | Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared . |
| 13 | It was neither bright , nor ornamented , nor ill-fitting , but she was such an unfamiliar sight out of boy 's breeches and working boots and fustian shirt that the company burst out laughing , and barracked and whistled and cheered and blew kisses at her on her long walk from the cottage where she had been hiding herself . |
| 14 | A few moments ago she had been burning up in his arms , caught up in the fever of his lovemaking , but now the blood seemed to have turned to ice in her veins , frozen by his uncaring tones . |
| 15 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 16 | This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse . |
| 17 | ‘ Listen , my dear , ’ she said to Alexandra , summoned flushed and impatient from the orchard where she had been settling her new charges in and attempting , as tactfully as possible , to exclude Murphy from the process , ‘ Mrs Langley says George is heartened beyond anything by your visit . |
| 18 | She is the Santa Maria del Sud and had recently been brought down under tow from the Argentine naval base near Buenos Aires where she has been undergoing a complete refit . |