Example sentences of "[Wh det] she have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martha longed to show off her advancement in reading and writing , for which she had been noted in the valley , and was bewildered and humiliated when she could make no sense of the books she was given . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car . |
| 5 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 6 | ‘ Fred ’ as she was called on the circuit , played no less than 26 Federation and Wightman Cup rubbers for Britain , before directing her sporting talents , in a competitive sense , increasingly towards golf to which she had been introduced by her devoted husband Keith , himself a former leading British tennis junior . |
| 7 | These were the ordinary things from which she had been protected by her money and her ill health . |
| 8 | Although she could have sworn she had blacked out , she still somehow recalled the journey on which she had been taken by the tall man and a few others . |
| 9 | If his hair swayed into her face as they settled in the bus she wanted to hold it , to rub her cheek on it , to put it to her lips , and she thought there would be no pleasure in the world like giving in to him , which she had been anticipating with impatience but anxiety for so long . |
| 10 | After the depressing makeshifts to which she had been reduced by British rationing , the sensation of wonderful materials against her skin was almost as pleasing as the vendeuse 's comments about ‘ Madame 's wonderful figure ’ and striking face . |
| 11 | Turning her head round to see what the pain could be , Pepita had seen the spider scuttle back into the crate from which she had been thrown with the bananas . |
| 12 | Despite the tempting offer , Stephanie decided that working in Northampton House for Rentokil , which she 's been doing since August 1991 , was definitely preferable to Tunisia . |
| 13 | Bartels has been credited with helping Steffi , 23 , over the past two years in which she has been plagued by illness and unhappiness . |
| 14 | Here the unconscious mind takes the more specific form of Christabel 's sexuality and sexual desires , which she has been taught by her upbringing to disregard , and even to suppress , seeing them as the dark and evil side of human nature . |
| 15 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | She wondered how much of what she had been born with was left . |
| 18 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 19 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 20 | It was what she had been told by the sisters at the convent . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 23 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 24 | And when she reflected , as she frequently did , upon what she had been bred to , she was profoundly puzzled by her own origins . |
| 25 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 26 | Well , he told Mummy , and now she 's furious , because apparently it 's what she 'd been hoping for . |
| 27 | She pulled herself together with an effort , trying to remember what she 'd been told about wine-tasting , holding the glass carefully by the stem , and sniffing delicately . |
| 28 | I saw what she 'd been smiling at . |
| 29 | It 's just what she 's been used to in n it ? |