Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has also been optimised for racing with a Kevlar sail wardrobe . |
| 2 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |
| 3 | She has often been criticised for not doing , or doing imperfectly , things she was not trying to do . |
| 4 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 5 | The girl had n't been born into this archiac world ; she had n't been prepared for a lover who was demanding and possessive , as Nicolo must have been . |
| 6 | Their daughter , Carla , nearly five now , looked as if she had n't been washed for days . |
| 7 | She had n't been to work for two nights . |
| 8 | She also made a handsome donation although she had not been asked for money . |
| 9 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 10 | Although she had not been prepared for his barrage of questions and had answered them almost truculently , she had made Nicky think twice about her simply because she seemed more direct and independent than most of the girls he knew . |
| 11 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 12 | She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this . |
| 13 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 14 | That was an intervention from her conscience but she had never been known for obstinacy in the past , and it was puzzling to account , really , for her awkward persistence about Grace . |
| 15 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 16 | She 's already been picked for the Jack Gannon , that 's the eighteen to twenty-one group . |
| 17 | Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well . |
| 18 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |