Example sentences of "she [vb past] been [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 2 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 3 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 4 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 5 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 6 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 7 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |