Example sentences of "[subord] she have [adv] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few anxious moments , but as soon as I pulled on the glove she came straight at me , low and very fast indeed , much swifter of course than she could have done if she had still been carrying the equipment . |
| 2 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 3 | Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well . |
| 4 | Jane carried the tray across to the police officers with what looked to the sergeant like absurd concentration and Dexter wondered uncharitably whether she had already been drinking . |
| 5 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 6 | She sent him a memo — the usual form of royal communication — but he replied negatively , arguing that it was n't possible as she had only been doing the job for a short time . |