Example sentences of "she [verb] been [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 2 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 3 | Since her two daughters have left home she has been researching 18th Century records preparatory to writing biographies of some political reformers . |
| 4 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 5 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 6 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 7 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 8 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 9 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 10 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 11 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 12 | She had been working full time in a local factory for the past 8 years and usually enjoyed good relationships with her friends . |
| 13 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 14 | ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’ |
| 15 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 16 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
| 17 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 18 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 19 | She 's been crying all night really . |
| 20 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
| 21 | It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years . |
| 22 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |