Example sentences of "she [verb] been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 2 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 3 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 6 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 7 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 8 | And then a sound , as if she had been standing next to a huge thunderclap . |
| 9 | She had been sitting still in her seat . |
| 10 | She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day . |
| 11 | No , she 's been getting enough of that . |
| 12 | That 's where she 's been spending most of her time these last few months . ’ |
| 13 | But er according to Sharon she 's been sitting alone in er bed and breakfast and erm |