Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [verb] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
2 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
3 | ‘ The hills of Sintra mean that even in the height of summer the town has a freshness , which is why the rich people used to build their country houses here to escape the heat of Lisbon , ’ Ashley said , resolutely switching her thoughts away from her host and to a guide book which she had been reading . |
4 | On the day after Christmas she received the letter from him which she had been expecting . |
5 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
6 | She allowed her steady gaze to flicker from the glass which she had been holding firm . |
7 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
8 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
9 | Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car . |
10 | It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps . |
11 | She resolutely pushed away the memory of Dr Neil and the life which she had been going to share with him . |
12 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
13 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
14 | It was a question Marian had been expecting and which she had been asking herself but to which she did not know the answer . |
15 | If his hair swayed into her face as they settled in the bus she wanted to hold it , to rub her cheek on it , to put it to her lips , and she thought there would be no pleasure in the world like giving in to him , which she had been anticipating with impatience but anxiety for so long . |
16 | Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair . |
17 | Despite the tempting offer , Stephanie decided that working in Northampton House for Rentokil , which she 's been doing since August 1991 , was definitely preferable to Tunisia . |
18 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
19 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
20 | Crews are fairly divided according to age and experience , and all 130 competitors had to raise £14,850 for their berth — Justine is jointly sponsored by Price Waterhouse and Blackburn-based accountancy firm Porter Matthews and Marsden , for which she has been working . |
21 | This weekend she has another opportunity to show her talent , and a special throw which she has been perfecting , when she competes in the British Open at Crystal Palace . |
22 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
23 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
24 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | It was not what she had been expecting . |
27 | His voice was gravelly , deep , sure … and distinctly not what she had been expecting . |
28 | His words carried the ring of truth , and Folly felt a flush of shame at what she had been imagining . |
29 | She stood quivering in his grasp , terrified he might somehow guess what she had been thinking . |
30 | With a small smile that proved he knew very well what she had been thinking , he went out , and she tried to relax her tense muscles . |