Example sentences of "she [verb] been [v-ing] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been teaching approximately 10 hours a week including one session for children and one for the elderly . |
| 2 | Anyway , she 'd been drinking too much , of late . |
| 3 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |
| 4 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 5 | apparently she does n't know why they sacked her she said , they sacked apparently something to do with she 'd been asking too many questions or something and but she |
| 6 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 7 | She had been listening slightly spellbound to this smooth recital , and now she said , ‘ How far can you go ? ’ |
| 8 | She had known why Mr Evans had sent Hepzibah biscuits ; had known that he wanted her to spy , to keep her eyes open , and it seemed that without meaning to she had been doing just that ! |
| 9 | She remembered quite clearly what she had been doing scarce ten minutes ago . |
| 10 | But yesterday , as she nursed the baby she had been praying so many years for , she said : ‘ I never gave up hope . ’ |
| 11 | For the past half-hour she had been feeling distinctly uneasy as the ever-present shadows had deepened into almost impenetrable blackness . |
| 12 | Up to that moment , she had been feeling perfectly well . |
| 13 | There , she had been feeling chaotically confused by her mounting enjoyment of the outing , but fatally seduced by Roman 's excellent company , and the warmth and luxury and sheer hedonism of it all . |
| 14 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 15 | I mean everyone knows she fancies him , but like , she 's been getting really flirty ! |
| 16 | And she 's been working there eight years . |
| 17 | ‘ I expect she 's been sitting too long in the sun , ’ she said . |