Example sentences of "she [verb] been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 2 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 5 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 6 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 7 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 10 | And when she 's been confined there for days you sometimes have n't bothered with a towel . |