Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it .
2 Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves .
3 She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and …
4 The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side .
5 Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word .
6 Her daughter had been sleeping with boys , and men since she was fourteen .
7 Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him .
8 Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days .
9 Night after sleepless night , her mother had been thinking about her , while Carolyn slept deep black sleeps and tried to keep her head empty .
10 During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health .
11 Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death .
12 Lady Bell said her son had been returning to his Land Rover , parked on the opposite side of the road to the farm .
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