Example sentences of "[noun] she have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 2 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 3 | Although SDPJ leader Takako Doi had wanted to field more candidates she had been prevented from so doing by pressure from sitting socialist members of the Diet . |
| 4 | At the onset she had been referred to a surgeon and had a normal barium enema and chest x ray . |
| 5 | Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days . |
| 6 | She could n't remember the details , only the sense of confusion that everything was different — the language , the schools she had been sent to one after another . |
| 7 | Bernice quickly unrolled the bundle she 'd been carrying beneath her arm and thrust Ace 's blood-soaked jacket into the Doctor 's hands . |
| 8 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 9 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 10 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 11 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 12 | In this dream she had been locked into the school library with an exam paper containing one question and one only : Compare and contrast narrative method in Proust and Tom Jones . |
| 13 | In the stampede to get out of the building she had been caught under the flow of people , pushed to the ground and trapped , with a broken ankle , under heaps of clothes and stands . |
| 14 | Some of the shields , spears , fetishistic objects and lion's-teeth necklaces she has been presented with on her travels are displayed . |
| 15 | Penelope , however , it had to be acknowledged , had made no attempt to rise above the blow she had been dealt by finding a dazzling girl of her own age favoured over herself in her uncle 's will . |
| 16 | But unlike her Conservative and Liberal Democrat opponents she 's been excluded from the centenary dinner at the Town 's football club tonight . |
| 17 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 18 | Those views she had been taught in the twenties while a young girl , that men do not love or respect , still less marry , women who have ‘ given themselves ’ to them , she had been obliged to revise . |
| 19 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 20 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 21 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 22 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 23 | A couple of times she 's been standing behind a door , open it , smash her brains in . |
| 24 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 25 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 26 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 27 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 28 | In the early days she had been stung by criticism of the way she dressed . |
| 29 | Four days ago in a similar quiet period she had been gossiping with her uncle , listening to his barbed comments on affairs , on the art world , and on his family . |
| 30 | Brenda ( seventeen , Jamaican parents ) commented that in Jamaica she had been teased as a " foreigner " because her Creole was not up to scratch : Oh , they call you all — " English gyal , come here English gyal ! " yeh , my sister 'ad it all , my sister ai n't English , my sister 's Jamaican , because she come over here when she was young , when she went back over there they were callin' her English gyal , the lot [ ] but when she , she ai n't forget nothin' , she can still speak it so she open her mouth and they say sorry [ ri ] ! |