Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [been] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 2 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 3 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 4 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 5 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 6 | And they give a , though she 's not being like , really cheeky , it 's because she 's been living in a culture for four years , where that 's the way they , they sell and buy . |
| 7 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |