Example sentences of "week [adv] she have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 2 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 3 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 4 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 5 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 6 | As short a time as a few weeks previously she had been , when not bored , repelled by his music . |