Example sentences of "[conj] she have been [v-ing] [adv prt] " 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 | Surely he was n't implying that she had been trying out her feminine wiles on Sam ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ So she 's been coming down with you , has she ? ’ asked Greg . |
| 12 | When she had finished , her whole body throbbed , ached , was raw , as if she had been cutting up small pieces of herself . |
| 13 | Sometimes I enjoy it , it depends what mood I 'm in , and if she 's been playing up . |
| 14 | Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’ |
| 15 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 16 | There , among the junk mail and bills delivered while she had been riding out first lot , was an envelope written in a careful , neat hand . |
| 17 | She dealt with his query and recalled how , when she had been going over everything Naylor had said , including his certainty that someone else must be chipping in to pay her mortgage , she had got round to accepting that she just could not afford to go on living where she was . |