Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's very sorry you are n't well , but not surprised ; apparently she 's been urging you to take a holiday for the last two years . ’ |
| 2 | She did n't know how long she 'd been lying there . |
| 3 | It was n't until later , when Robyn heard Anne 's key in the lock , that she realised just how long she had been staring into space , miserably going over and over the disastrous weekend , in a futile attempt to try and put it all back into some sort of perspective . |
| 4 | Basically she 's been giving her Diarralite |
| 5 | OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little ! |
| 6 | But then the moon slid behind a cloud and the images vanished and Fenella thought that perhaps she had been mistaken . |
| 7 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 8 | Perhaps she had been dropped onto his path on purpose . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps she 's been thinking things out and she feels a bit sorry for you . ’ |
| 10 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 11 | As soon as Honor was old enough she had been dragooned into helping with the housework , preparing meals if cook were ill , as well as acting as her mother 's companion . |
| 12 | During the last half hour or so she had been pacing the room like a caged animal , insisting that the door should be kept ajar and the window opened wide . |
| 13 | So she had been asking after him . |
| 14 | A slight chill the day after the sale had delayed her journey to London and so she had been forced to leave Summer Lodge with her few possessions in a bag and watch as the cab carried her from the large estate on the hill to the cramped rooms of the house in Chapel Street . |
| 15 | Every now and again — or so she 'd been told — the owners would call in the books . |
| 16 | so she 's been dealing with her Manchester solicitors and a London solicitor |
| 17 | So she 's been trying to get work off her . |
| 18 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 19 | It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker . |
| 20 | Luce froze , realising how easily she 'd been lulled into a false sense of security . |
| 21 | It has been a difficult day for the Queen and tonight she 's been snubbed following the decision by the municipality of Limassol not to present her with the keys to the town . |
| 22 | She wished she could stand in the night and laugh , but already she had been heard . |
| 23 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 24 | Anyway she 's been going out on and off for quite a while now . |
| 25 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 26 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
| 27 | As the man unfolded his tall frame and stood up , slinging a dusty jacket over one broad shoulder , Folly realised how right she had been to see him as formidable . |
| 28 | And how right she had been to lie ! |
| 29 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 30 | Eventually she had been sent to a psychiatrist to see if he could help discover the reason for what appeared to be a purely psychosomatic condition . |