Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been coughing but she worked with sufficient sparkle at Lambourn on Saturday to persuade trainer Barry Hills that she is ready to put her reputation on the line . |
| 2 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 3 | The patient had been living before she came to London on the outskirts of a town in Bangladesh . |
| 4 | She had n't been acting when she 'd responded so passionately out there on the dance floor . |
| 5 | So now they 're saying if she does n't , if she goes off again without her mother 's consent then they 'll take her into care . |
| 6 | ‘ And you 're forgetting that she has the use of them during the period of her life , ’ he retorted crisply . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry — I 'm so curious — I 've been wondering if she answered , and if so , what she said . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Larkin , 54 , added : ‘ Really now , I am wondering whether she has been buried somewhere . |
| 9 | He had kept out of her way while she 'd been interviewing but she had been aware of where he was all the time . |
| 10 | She had been clinging when she 'd been in Ven 's arms , she had to admit that , but then — she loved him . |
| 11 | That was a change from the senators and congressmen and captains of industry , whom she 'd been seducing since she arrived on these golden shores . |
| 12 | so she said while you 've been doing that she said she 's been sort of gassing to anybody you know , so she said it 's been mentioned by management and they said oh well she 'll be able to sort of hovering while she stood there you know , time , time to natter she could be erm , got time to do that . |
| 13 | OPHELIA has been sewing and she holds the garment . |
| 14 | His mother had been crying as she had rifled the house for money for him , and as she had made sandwiches to put in greaseproof paper because it would be dangerous for him to stop at cafés on his way to the airport . |
| 15 | If only she could understand the excruciating pain her boys are suffering when she treats them like this , and realise that they will carry that pain for the rest of their lives . |
| 16 | Travis picked up the map he must have been consulting while she slept . |
| 17 | She would n't be laughing if she knew how close she was to disaster . |
| 18 | He was said to be fuming because she had n't told him where she was staying during her family skiing holiday in Klosters . |
| 19 | it is n't , it 's Bryony 's space suit , give her , otherwise she 'll be squeaking cos she wants her own , here 's yours James , you have your own , give that one to Bryony , here 's your space suit Bryony , you 'll need this if you 're going to the moon |
| 20 | What was it for ? ’ , and within two minutes the prize-winner will be believing that she knew all about him and had indeed been specially looking forward to meeting him . |
| 21 | doing an honours degree in maths , so I 'm waiting till she 's finished and then |
| 22 | She had n't even known herself where she would be staying until she had walked out of the station the day before and asked a taxi-driver to take her somewhere clean and as cheap as possible . |
| 23 | ’ Yes Del , ’ she said , sounding as if she 'd be putting if she had lips . |
| 24 | I mean it 's the last fortnight she 's meant to be studying and she 's been out with her boyfriends and |
| 25 | It 'll all be changing when she owns her flat . |
| 26 | Cos we could have somebody in to help that 's all I 'm thinking if she says yeah I 'm sure you could get something from |
| 27 | And some of these techniques must be working because she keeps getting re-hired . |
| 28 | Of course , she had n't been joking when she 'd told the English girl that a marriage between two highly charged Leos could be an explosive situation . |
| 29 | Then she remembered that it was only a selection of the poems he had been reading and she did not need to speculate further , for — much to her surprise — he began to read |
| 30 | Would she have been drinking before she arrived there , do you think ? ’ |