Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] been [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durance said to Rain : ‘ I ca n't believe Joseph does n't understand that selling under her name a painting recognizable as a Durance is equivalent to telling a journalist she had been painting my pictures . |
| 2 | It turns out that half the words she 's been teaching me are all wrong . |
| 3 | Life with Mary Top eventer Mary Thomson describes the work she has been giving her horses . |
| 4 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 5 | It had been the question she had been pondering herself . |
| 6 | Despite the lecture she 'd been reading herself , excitement had put colour in her cheeks and made her clear golden-brown eyes sparkle . |
| 7 | over two years she 's been doing it . |
| 8 | What kind of incident she 'd been fearing she hardly liked to admit , even to herself . |
| 9 | All through the short plane journey she 'd been imagining what it would be like to meet Rune again socially . |
| 10 | In both cases the choice is between the serious but dull ( when seeing Paul she had been completing her thesis on religious poetry ) and the creative but frivolous ( she collaborates with Bernard on a book about adultery in medieval literature ) . |
| 11 | Ever since her children started school she 's been filling her time making sculptures from scrap . |
| 12 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 13 | All this time she had been imagining him pacing the terrace at Rocamar . |
| 14 | In fact she 'd been repeating them every mile or so . |