Example sentences of "her [noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 2 | Her heart had been beating fast and her hands were shaking , but as he kissed her and his body pressed close against hers , the length of his body hard against hers , those signs of fear gradually ceased and she grew weak and curiously fluid in his arms . |
| 3 | Her heart had been beating painfully fast , and now she became aware of the rapid pulse in Travis 's neck where her cheek rested against it . |
| 4 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 5 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 6 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 7 | Her husband had been having an affair with Suzanne Regan . |
| 8 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 9 | She knew more about The Hell Fire Club ; she was certain that was what her husband had been working on . |
| 10 | It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all . |
| 11 | And ever since Simon had revealed that he had accepted the lunch invitation her adrenalin had been humming . |
| 12 | Was it possible her friend had been matchmaking — her stepbrother and her best friend ? |
| 13 | What was more , her father had been drinking ; he smelt strongly of it . |
| 14 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 15 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 16 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 17 | Then it was there , the blurry light of the candles and the singing Happy Birthday and the big whoosh … and the clapping , and when the curtains were open again Benny saw the thin young man that her father had been shaking hands with . |
| 18 | Her daughter had been sleeping with boys , and men since she was fourteen . |
| 19 | When , at last , he stripped off his clothes and came into her , it was as if this was the moment to which all her life had been leading . |
| 20 | This was where her life had been leading … |
| 21 | The girl , who will be seven next month , told the High Court in Glasgow that her grandfather had been wearing a red nose and had been dressed like a clown at the time . |
| 22 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |
| 23 | ( Her aunts had been saying much the same kind of thing to her all her life , I believe . ) |
| 24 | Once again Isabel did n't get a chance to argue , even if her brain had been working . |
| 25 | Clasping a handkerchief to her mouth by way of explanation , Sam rushed out of the kitchen ; the heat , Lydia 's closeness and the smell of her scent had been suffocating . |
| 26 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 27 | At the weekend when she had taken Balbinder to stay with his grandparents in Coventry , her brother had been trying to teach Balbinder to say ‘ can I ’ , or ‘ May I ’ instead of ‘ I want to ’ . |
| 28 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 29 | She flushed , wondering if her mother had been watching . |
| 30 | Night after sleepless night , her mother had been thinking about her , while Carolyn slept deep black sleeps and tried to keep her head empty . |