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 .
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