Example sentences of "she [vb past] been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
2 | She 'd been sent there for contempt of court by Essex magistrates when she refused to answer questions about her personal finances in a poll tax case . |
3 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
4 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
5 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
6 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |
7 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
8 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
9 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
10 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
13 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |