Example sentences of "she [verb] be [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been appointed this season after the Wordsworth Trust staged a six-day exhibition in Osaka last year . |
| 2 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 3 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 4 | Perhaps the reason is that she has been persuaded that teacher approval , and whatever other more tangible extrinsic rewards may follow , are in short supply and to gain what she needs she must not simply ( or even necessarily ) improve but also get ( or merely stay ) ahead of others . |
| 5 | She wished she could say she knew she was being difficult and edgy , taking it out on him because she 'd been denied another child . |
| 6 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 7 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 8 | Nothing she damaged was making any difference . |
| 9 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 10 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 11 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 12 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 13 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 14 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 15 | In those days of waiting , she had been spared any dread of Robert 's approaching her . |
| 16 | The last thing she wanted was to spend more time with this abrasive Scandinavian . |
| 17 | ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’ |
| 18 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
| 19 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 20 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 21 | She 's been crying all night really . |
| 22 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
| 23 | It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years . |
| 24 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |