Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 2 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 4 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 5 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 6 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 7 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
| 8 | I take it you have n't been keeping her at home and just not sent a note ? |
| 9 | The softly spoken threat cut through the haze fogging her brain and she sat bolt upright , knocking away the hand that had been caressing her into submission almost without her realising it . |
| 10 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 11 | Not that she 'll recognize ye , her sight 's none too good , but we 've been tellin' her for days ye 'd be coming . ’ |
| 12 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 13 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 14 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 15 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 16 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 17 | Roman had been holding her in his arms and she had n't been fighting — no wonder Dana was furious . |
| 18 | She has n't heard Alina walking across the terrace , and has n't even been expecting her for another half-hour . |
| 19 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 20 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 21 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 22 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |
| 23 | Well Derek 's been telling her for ages you see , to join the |
| 24 | Or perhaps you 've been telling her about when her periods will be due . |
| 25 | I 've been telling her about that and all . |
| 26 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 27 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 28 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 29 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 30 | He had been watching her without a flicker of expression . |