Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |
| 2 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 3 | It was only then she realised she 'd been holding her breath . |
| 4 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 5 | She sat up and rubbed her eyes , colouring furiously as she realised she had been using Roman 's shoulder for a head-rest . |
| 6 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 7 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 8 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 9 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 10 | She discovered she 'd been sleeping on her back . |
| 11 | Six months before her overdose Liz terminated the relationship with her boyfriend of two years ' standing after she discovered he had been going out with another girl . |
| 12 | At that time , and erm she had n't known anything about it , because he had looked after the benefit , and she thought he 'd been paying the rent . |
| 13 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 14 | She knew he 'd been studying her face while watching for her reaction . |
| 15 | He came forward into the firelight then and she saw he had been sitting beside the range , in an old rocking chair which he had left tilting back and forth , to take the lantern from her , grasping her free hand in his . |
| 16 | ‘ She said they 'd been helping her to write songs , and sure enough I tried one of them — low string down to D , and top string right down to C — and I got three new songs straight away : Galileo , Virginia Woolf and a ballad that did n't make it onto the record . |
| 17 | ‘ She said she 'd been peeling onions . |
| 18 | When she said she 'd been going to visit her friend , there 'd been no friend . |
| 19 | She said she 'd been babysitting , but then and the doors and and and I this filthy , filthy , dirty letter somebody had written to her , some other girl |
| 20 | But er she said she 'd been feeling a bit rough recently . |
| 21 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |
| 22 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 23 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 24 | But that day that that woman phoned up the house erm she said I 've been watching Neighbours or something |
| 25 | come home from work she said I 've been looking round in Boots and that for you , she said er I 've decided , she said I was gon na get you a gift voucher . |
| 26 | Oh I du n no you 'll have to talk to Ian , she said I 've been working Les done , er Les , Les told me eleven till three , it was half past eleven till three and er , so Bev was alright |