Example sentences of "that she [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 2 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 3 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 4 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 5 | And she did admit that she had been skipping things , you know , and erm I hoped it would go on alright , that was a couple of months ago . |
| 6 | Surely he was n't implying that she had been trying out her feminine wiles on Sam ? |
| 7 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 8 | A Lebanese chauffeur who denies Kim 's manslaughter has told the court that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 9 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 10 | Dyson remembered , at the sight of her silently writing , that she had been nagging him . |
| 11 | She said in a rage that she had been thinking it was rough on him to belong to a society with a theology of gambling . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 14 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 15 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 16 | She pulled off the scarf that she had been wearing round her head to protect her ears and prevent her hair getting into her eyes and mouth . |
| 17 | She was adamant that she had been wearing her G-string at the time — round her ankle . |
| 18 | Her pony-tail was weaving like a snake , and she was still dressed in blood-stained black armour and shiny leggings ; the same kit that she had been wearing when Ardamal and his section had dragged her , kicking and screaming , into the IMC executive transporter . |
| 19 | She explained that she had been eating mote cheese and drinking an extra pint of milk a day to make sure she got enough protein during pregnancy and breast-feeding . |
| 20 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 21 | She was quite attractive except for a very nasty skin condition , her face and arms were covered with a large number of pustules and it was obvious that she had been scratching them ; the scratch-marks were bleeding slightly . |
| 22 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 23 | I have never known anyone work like it — and I discovered today that she had been writing articles for the Clarion Cry at midnight on top of everything else she did in the house . |
| 24 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 25 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 26 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 27 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 28 | Katherine put down the empty glass with a start , she had n't realized that she had been drinking . |
| 29 | The fan that she had been waving stopped in mid motion and clicked shut . |
| 30 | Suddenly conscious that she had been holding her breath , Katherine pulled the door closed and then leaned back against the wall , aware of the pounding of her heart . |