Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 2 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 3 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 4 | She claimed to have been shopping with a boyfriend at the time . |
| 5 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
| 6 | She appeared to have been eating . |
| 7 | The cannabis and the vodka she had consumed were making her feel light-headed . |
| 8 | Which , at one point last night , she remembered with a rising tide of embarrassment , was just about what she had decided was happening … |
| 9 | she said straining is going to push the stitches |
| 10 | She evidently saw no difficulty in reconciling that with the fact that the man she hoped to marry was training to become a doctor . |