Example sentences of "[subord] she have [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 2 | Isolated from her sons , Diana had been expecting a visit from Gilbey at Althorp House where she had been staying with her brother , Charles . |
| 3 | Jay 's rainbow wings fluttered around a sun-sparkling river that had become her life , where she had been moping by an old canal full of dead shopping trolleys for years . |
| 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 | But er but er yeah , so but like , she 's been saying to me cos she 's been thinking about whether she is or not she er she 's been like like everywhere there 's babys and prams and everywhe , on the telly and everything , do you know what I mean ? |
| 6 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 7 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 8 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 9 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 10 | She 'd felt as if she 'd been fighting with Guy Sterne all her life ! |
| 11 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 12 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 13 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 14 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 15 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 16 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 17 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 18 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 19 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 20 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 21 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
| 22 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 23 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 24 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 25 | And they give a , though she 's not being like , really cheeky , it 's because she 's been living in a culture for four years , where that 's the way they , they sell and buy . |
| 26 | you can guarantee it she goes to shops about eleven o'clock , she do n't come back till one because she 's been talking on shops , that 's her routine you know ? |
| 27 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 28 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 29 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 30 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |