Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
2 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
3 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
4 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
5 | Subconsciously , she realised , she 'd been hoping for a ready answer , an explanation which would clear her niggling doubts … |
6 | She had been hoping for a ‘ jobs Budget ’ to fulfil a great need in East Anglia where there had been a big increase in unemployment . |
7 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
8 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
9 | She had been meaning for an age to get a dimmer fitted . |
10 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
11 | She had never mentioned that she possessed musical ability , so the crew listened spellbound for a few minutes as she played the carol ‘ Silent Night , Holy Night ’ , as though she had been rehearsing for a month . |
12 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
13 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
14 | She had been yearning for a baby for 20 years after her only other child , another boy , was killed in a car crash as a teenager . |
15 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
16 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
17 | She 's been missing for a week , was going to marry a rising Minister , successful career , everything coming up roses . |