Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 2 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 3 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 4 | But of Doreen there was no sign — at least not until they went inside and she emerged from her bedroom , where she had been weeping . |
| 5 | Omar Kujabi , a Senegalese labourer and amateur wrestler , has not been seen at the Abuko reserve , near Banjul , since the body of Mrs Penelope Hiscocks , 42 , was found in the grounds of a house where she had been staying . |
| 6 | Isolated from her sons , Diana had been expecting a visit from Gilbey at Althorp House where she had been staying with her brother , Charles . |
| 7 | He sometimes had given her a lift to Atherton , Manchester , where she had been staying . |
| 8 | As he entered the garden through the back.gate , Isobel got up from in front of a flower bed where she had been planting bulbs . |
| 9 | Jay 's rainbow wings fluttered around a sun-sparkling river that had become her life , where she had been moping by an old canal full of dead shopping trolleys for years . |
| 10 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 11 | She had no fire in her bedroom , where she had been sitting waiting for his call , and staring at the dying mistletoe . |
| 12 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |
| 13 | A magazine lay on the floor beside a wicker chair where she had been sleeping . |
| 14 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 15 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 16 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 17 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 18 | Not allowing yourself or your children to be passengers in a car if the driver is the primary sufferer and he or she has been drinking . |
| 19 | He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme . |
| 20 | An elderly person has very delicate skin ; and if he or she has been lying or sitting in bed all day , they may develop pressure sores on the bony parts of the body — the base of the spine , the heels , the elbows or on the shoulders . |
| 21 | It may be that he or she has been working quietly away in the background or it could be a single , dramatic act of true heroism in harrowing circumstances that we hear about but often goes unrewarded . |
| 22 | With sufficient ingenuity , an analyst can therefore trace any reported dream back to certain themes which he or she believes are preoccupying the dreamer . |
| 23 | Although she had been expecting something like this , Robbie 's mouth was suddenly dry , her tongue cleaving to the roof of her mouth . |
| 24 | But although she had been standing there just a moment before , there was no sign of Izzie . |
| 25 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 26 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 27 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 28 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 29 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 30 | And she did admit that she had been skipping things , you know , and erm I hoped it would go on alright , that was a couple of months ago . |