Example sentences of "she [vb past] be [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been thinking about becoming a nun but she could n't be with a baby . |
| 2 | She 'd been thinking about something , or somebody , else . |
| 3 | Cos Ange said she 'd , she 'd been chatting about Jenny to her . |
| 4 | She 'd been reading about how Egyptians believed cats guided your dreams , and dreamed that she was roaming around their flat from a cat 's point of view . |
| 5 | It was something she 'd been wondering about . |
| 6 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 7 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 8 | She had been thinking about her future and discussing it with her parents , and all of them had decided to sell the shop . |
| 9 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 10 | It annoyed her even more that his continuing aristocratic demeanour disappointed her after the way she had been thinking about him . |
| 11 | She had been thinking about nothing else except this phone call for days now , wrestling with the conflict of emotions that were raging inside . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 14 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 15 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |