Example sentences of "she [vb past] been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
2 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
3 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
4 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |
5 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
6 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
7 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
8 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
9 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
10 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
11 | She had been calling out to him , pleading , arms outstretched , ‘ Wait for me . |
12 | Her face burned as she realised that while she had been soaring naïvely in previously unthought-of heights of bliss Luke Hunter had just been mentally carving another notch on his bed-post . |
13 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
14 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
15 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
16 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
17 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
18 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
19 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
20 | Since she had been drifting luxuriously into sleep , it took a second for the voice to register , but when it did , it acted like a bucket of ice-cold water flung over her sun-warmed limbs , and she jack-knifed upright , her eyes wide with shock . |
21 | She had been thinking more about her companion since the death of Spike . |
22 | She had been eating mechanically until now — the vol-au-vent , some olives , a sliver of cheese — trying unsuccessfully to drown the sensation of Tom 's kiss that she could still taste and feel so strongly on her lips , but , as soon as she bit into the juicy chicken wing with its sizzling red coating of spiced crumbs , her mouth began to burn with a very different feeling . |
23 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
24 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
25 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
28 | She resisted adding that she had been working overtime on his designs . |
29 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
30 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |