Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] she have been [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Somehow she managed to take a proper breath , not the little shallow gasps she had been giving up to now .
2 I 'm sorry , ’ he repeated , and the smile he gave her was so gentle that the angry words she had been going to utter died , locked somewhere in her throat .
3 Heaven knew she 'd been the subject of enough prurient curiosity in the few short weeks she 'd been running the club .
4 Blindly she moved back to her desk again , to the neat pages she had been stacking when Rob had come into the room .
5 But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago .
6 And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test .
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