Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of course she had been waiting . |
| 32 | It was warm in the kitchen and the fire cast a soft light on Carrie who was kneeling in front of the fire , folding the blanket she had been airing . |
| 33 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 34 | David gave up his job as the headmaster of a primary school near St Helens in Lancashire earlier this year , his wife , Vicky gave up the job of supply teaching she had been doing and , with their two children , Jonathan ( 11 ) and Patrick ( 5 ) , set off in May last year for some serious cruising , which includes going transatlantic with the ARC . |
| 35 | Somehow she managed to take a proper breath , not the little shallow gasps she had been giving up to now . |
| 36 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 37 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 38 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 39 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 40 | Pulling a little face , she carefully folded the tea-towel she 'd been using and laid it on the work surface . |
| 41 | A couple of times she 's been standing behind a door , open it , smash her brains in . |
| 42 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 43 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 44 | ‘ Of course not , ’ her son said and then the moment she had been dreading came . |
| 45 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 46 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 47 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 48 | For the past two days she had been dreading the proximity this trip would involve , but gradually , as the car wound its way along the narrow mountain roads , she could feel herself beginning to relax . |
| 49 | Heaven knew she 'd been the subject of enough prurient curiosity in the few short weeks she 'd been running the club . |
| 50 | After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading . |
| 51 | All the same , Glyn 's advice was hard to dismiss , and as Jenna got ready for bed in the silent house she reached the conclusion she had been pushing aside since the shock of the letter had settled . |
| 52 | Despite the lecture she 'd been reading herself , excitement had put colour in her cheeks and made her clear golden-brown eyes sparkle . |
| 53 | Four days ago in a similar quiet period she had been gossiping with her uncle , listening to his barbed comments on affairs , on the art world , and on his family . |
| 54 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 55 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 56 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 57 | It must have felt lonely when a respected customer ( whose name was not exposed even to me ) dropped from under her coat the bag of flour she had been concealing there . |
| 58 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 59 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 60 | 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 . |