Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] she have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course she had been waiting . |
| 2 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 3 | It must have felt lonely when a respected customer ( whose name was not exposed even to me ) dropped from under her coat the bag of flour she had been concealing there . |
| 4 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 5 | Hyacinth , happily unused to the ways of the more unscrupulous telly interviewer , promptly stuck a roll of paper she had been carrying into the broadcaster 's eye , thus bringing the proceedings to a close . |
| 6 | What kind of incident she 'd been fearing she hardly liked to admit , even to herself . |
| 7 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 8 | The flood of gratitude she felt at Guy 's surprise appearance was as illogically powerful as the tide of resentment she 'd been harbouring earlier . |
| 9 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 10 | In fact she 'd been repeating them every mile or so . |
| 11 | In fact she had been feeling tired and queasy for the past few days ; and that night , when the leading man laid her on the sofa , suddenly turned her head and , without letting the audience see , vomited quietly down the sofa back . |
| 12 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 13 | Apart from a glass of lager at dinner she had been drinking only fruit juices , while Rune 's own consumption of lager had been only moderate , not enough to have much effect on a man of such highly tuned physique , she comforted herself . |