Example sentences of "she [verb] been [v-ing] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say hello to her , you assume she has been reading your mail or listening in to your private telephone calls ( actually I never did either ) , and you tell her when you do not wish to be disturbed . |
| 2 | She has been rebuilding her confidence after her Barcelona setback — and after breaking the European , Commonwealth and UK all-comers ' 2,000 metres record in 5min 40.90sec at the TSB International in Birmingham at the weekend , the Musselburgh runner says she will consider running the 3,000m in Toronto . |
| 3 | Life with Mary Top eventer Mary Thomson describes the work she has been giving her horses . |
| 4 | It was only then she realised she 'd been holding her breath . |
| 5 | She 'd been wasting her time . |
| 6 | Since she 'd been wearing her seatbelt and travelling at a very slow speed , she was n't hurt , but the shock was enough to make her tremble . |
| 7 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 8 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 9 | She 'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half . |
| 10 | She was adamant that she had been wearing her G-string at the time — round her ankle . |
| 11 | He knew she had been exercising what stealth she was capable of , and he knew why , but that was purely between the two of them . |
| 12 | Another discovered she had toothache one evening as she had been clenching her teeth all afternoon ! |
| 13 | I wondered if she had been watching our fight . |
| 14 | Suddenly conscious that she had been holding her breath , Katherine pulled the door closed and then leaned back against the wall , aware of the pounding of her heart . |
| 15 | She realised with a shock that , while waiting for the disaster she believed was inevitable , she had been holding her breath . |
| 16 | ‘ She had been reading her stars on a daily basis like everybody does . |
| 17 | In both cases the choice is between the serious but dull ( when seeing Paul she had been completing her thesis on religious poetry ) and the creative but frivolous ( she collaborates with Bernard on a book about adultery in medieval literature ) . |
| 18 | This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse . |
| 19 | She had been making her way towards Mrs Gracie 's door after walking a little . |
| 20 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 21 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 22 | After she had been practising her exercise for about ten days , she had gone out intending to walk to the local post office . |
| 23 | But , as she all at once realised that he thought , actually thought , that she had been pumping his secretary about him , so a tide of pink warmed her cheeks , and , ‘ Nothing ! ’ she exclaimed hotly , more startlement hitting her as it dawned on her that this then was the reason for his fury when he 'd seen them together . |
| 24 | She had been rolling her hips as she held the tip of his impatient knob just inside her cunt lips . |
| 25 | She was dimly aware that she had been treating her friends badly . |
| 26 | She dropped her lifted velvet skirts ( she had been warming her bottom in front of the fire burning fiercely in its basket grate ) as the girls appeared . |
| 27 | Naturally he had associated her remark with Hugh , whereas she had been recalling her dream , the dream in which Fen had appeared as the waiting bridegroom . |
| 28 | She now set out to please my mother , not by pretence that she had been spending her time worthily , but in shared reminiscence . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sure I shall now , ’ Peony thought , the more bitterly because she had been repressing her disappointment . |
| 30 | She had been painting her nails ; she spread out her hands , like plump white starfish , to admire the finished effect . |