Example sentences of "[Wh det] she have been [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 And she cried out as a cascade of fireworks seemed to explode deep within her , before their bodies , now moving in perfect unison , recaptured the fierce , tumultuous pleasure they had always shared in the past — the total consummation which she had been denied for so long .
2 Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months .
3 This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades .
4 Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ .
5 That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale .
6 And that , then , was what she had been waiting for .
7 This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now .
8 At last she found what she 'd been looking for .
9 Well , he told Mummy , and now she 's furious , because apparently it 's what she 'd been hoping for .
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