Example sentences of "she [verb] been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been teaching in North Kensington . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 4 | She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch . |
| 5 | She 'd been living in England such a long time , of course , it was a bit too free and easy over there . |
| 6 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |
| 7 | She 'd been browsing in a bookshop after buying a bedtime book for Kirsty when she 'd suddenly caught sight of the clock on the wall and seen , to her horror , that it was nearly five o'clock . |
| 8 | Well okay , that was a time she 'd been camping in the Lake District , Mrs did . |
| 9 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 10 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 11 | A lady phoned in saying she 'd been sitting in a café when some animal rights campaigners carrying collection tins arrived and ordered a meal . |
| 12 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 13 | But what would she have been doing in Southwark ? |
| 14 | She had been kneeling in an easy-chair to look at the painting at that side of the room and as she moved he suddenly looked across at her intently , his face moody . |
| 15 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 16 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
| 17 | This time there was no mistaking the command , but , short of trying out one of the manoeuvres she had been learning in a regular martial arts class , there was n't much she could do about it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
| 21 | She had been living in Crow Court off Vetch Street for nearly a week , and the narrow lives of the people among whom she found herself appalled her . |
| 22 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 23 | Rather desperately , Celia steered the conversation round to her and Brian 's new house in the country , how Alison and Geoffrey must come and stay , that they would be less than fifty miles apart ; while Alison , obviously thankful to turn to less delicate matters , regaled her with a description of all she had been doing in her garden and some rather dull anecdotes about the neighbours whom Celia and Brian had met on their last visit . |
| 24 | She had been working in Poole as a trading standards officer and has moved to London to earn more money to pay for the venture . |
| 25 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 26 | Indeed , during the train journey she had been weighing in her mind the advantages of an Italian dish ‘ something with funghi ’ — as against sole in an exquisite sauce or a cut off a splendid classic sirloin . |
| 27 | For the last few minutes , she had been travelling in parallel to her previous route . |
| 28 | It seemed that when he had arrested the thief , and reported to Sergia , she had been sitting in an ornate chair made of a local high-gloss hardwood . |
| 29 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 30 | She realised now that — as always when this dream occurred — she had been crying in her sleep , for her cheeks were wet . |