Example sentences of "[conj] she have been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 2 | It may be that he or she has been working quietly away in the background or it could be a single , dramatic act of true heroism in harrowing circumstances that we hear about but often goes unrewarded . |
| 3 | But although she had been standing there just a moment before , there was no sign of Izzie . |
| 4 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 5 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 6 | Surely he was n't implying that she had been trying out her feminine wiles on Sam ? |
| 7 | She pulled off the scarf that she had been wearing round her head to protect her ears and prevent her hair getting into her eyes and mouth . |
| 8 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 9 | She was embarrassed , realizing that she had been sounding exactly like Nina . |
| 10 | Why hide from him the facts that she had been coming since ? |
| 11 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 12 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 13 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 14 | He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut . |
| 15 | Miguel had been watching her , and she realised that she had been talking far too freely , and that she could n't see what he was thinking because of those dark glasses . |
| 16 | Eventually all was well , pockets complete , only for her to find that she had been cutting out these pocket linings in her already prepared garment lining ! ! |
| 17 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 18 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 20 | She resisted adding that she had been working overtime on his designs . |
| 21 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 22 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 23 | all da evening but then like last night see if I know that she 's been chomping on and off all night she 'll go for four or five hours . |
| 24 | ‘ So she 's been coming down with you , has she ? ’ asked Greg . |
| 25 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 26 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 27 | And she 's been working there eight years . |
| 28 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 29 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 30 | When she had finished , her whole body throbbed , ached , was raw , as if she had been cutting up small pieces of herself . |