Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 2 | Since then , her parents have been campaigning for a change in the law . |
| 3 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 4 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 5 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 6 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 7 | Her daughter had been sleeping with boys , and men since she was fourteen . |
| 8 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |
| 9 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 10 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 11 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 12 | Night after sleepless night , her mother had been thinking about her , while Carolyn slept deep black sleeps and tried to keep her head empty . |
| 13 | During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health . |
| 14 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 15 | In all the yelling and argument that followed Jo concluded that Andy the gardener was a starfucker in the literal sense of the term , for what else could her mother have been doing in the pool house at that time of day and why else would she have over-reacted the way she did ? |
| 16 | Lady Bell said her son had been returning to his Land Rover , parked on the opposite side of the road to the farm . |