Example sentences of "she [verb] been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " 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 | After six years of marriage , however , Adrienne finds she has been strolling unwittingly through a psychological jungle . |
| 3 | She has been feeding intensively in the neighbourhood , building up in her body the reserves from which she will produce her eggs . |
| 4 | She has been moving well in home gallops and defends her record in the Gainsborough Stud Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 5 | She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away . |
| 6 | Recently , she has been working closely with the stylist Judy Blame , ‘ as his sort of taste bud ’ , styling Neneh Cherry , Tackhead and new artist Harriet . |
| 7 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 8 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 9 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 10 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 11 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 12 | Her face burned as she realised that while she had been soaring naïvely in previously unthought-of heights of bliss Luke Hunter had just been mentally carving another notch on his bed-post . |
| 13 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 14 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 15 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 16 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
| 17 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 18 | Since she had been drifting luxuriously into sleep , it took a second for the voice to register , but when it did , it acted like a bucket of ice-cold water flung over her sun-warmed limbs , and she jack-knifed upright , her eyes wide with shock . |
| 19 | She had been thinking more about her companion since the death of Spike . |
| 20 | She had been eating mechanically until now — the vol-au-vent , some olives , a sliver of cheese — trying unsuccessfully to drown the sensation of Tom 's kiss that she could still taste and feel so strongly on her lips , but , as soon as she bit into the juicy chicken wing with its sizzling red coating of spiced crumbs , her mouth began to burn with a very different feeling . |
| 21 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 22 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 23 | She resisted adding that she had been working overtime on his designs . |
| 24 | She was embarrassed , realizing that she had been sounding exactly like Nina . |
| 25 | She had been walking away from him towards the path that led to the gate and she turned her head and said , ‘ Did n't want to disturb you ; you looked so peaceful , asleep . ’ |
| 26 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 27 | A few hours earlier she had been grinding wearily at Latin prose composition , when she had caught a shocked glimpse of her pinched , haggard face in the mirror . |
| 28 | It turned out that she was a freelance editor for OUP , with a daughter in her early teens and a seven-year-old son for whom she had been caring single-handedly since her husband 's untimely death . |
| 29 | She had been shrinking away from his anger and distaste , but now she was coming back , a hot fury of her own growing within her . |
| 30 | Moreover the meaning is not at all the same as with to + infinitive , as can be seen from the sample sentences below : ( 39 ) For years she had been driving illegally with a licence obtained in Italy where her brother had sent the examiner a case of wine — not necessary , but she had felt bolstered . |