Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] she have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |
| 2 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 3 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 4 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 5 | Another discovered she had toothache one evening as she had been clenching her teeth all afternoon ! |
| 6 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A magazine lay on the floor beside a wicker chair where she had been sleeping . |
| 9 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 10 | As he entered the garden through the back.gate , Isobel got up from in front of a flower bed where she had been planting bulbs . |
| 11 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 12 | He had kept out of her way while she 'd been interviewing but she had been aware of where he was all the time . |
| 13 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 14 | Omar Kujabi , a Senegalese labourer and amateur wrestler , has not been seen at the Abuko reserve , near Banjul , since the body of Mrs Penelope Hiscocks , 42 , was found in the grounds of a house where she had been staying . |
| 15 | Isolated from her sons , Diana had been expecting a visit from Gilbey at Althorp House where she had been staying with her brother , Charles . |
| 16 | And she 's got a bag whether she 's been shopping or , I |