Example sentences of "[verb] she have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 2 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 3 | He 's going to be ages , thought Juliet desperately , suddenly realising she 'd been standing with her hands clenched together , and her eyes screwed tightly as if to hear better . |
| 4 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 5 | She discovered she 'd been sleeping on her back . |
| 6 | ‘ She upset her hosts by her grumpy behaviour in Korea and we believe she 's been talking to Morton 's people again . |
| 7 | A lady phoned in saying she 'd been sitting in a café when some animal rights campaigners carrying collection tins arrived and ordered a meal . |
| 8 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 9 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 10 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 11 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 12 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 13 | Mrs Hepburn said she had been living with her husband at the time of the alleged crimes but was now in the process of divorcing him . |
| 14 | Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years . |
| 15 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 16 | Robyn took a sip and wished she had been listening from the beginning . |
| 17 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |