Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last night a source close to Jagger said : ‘ All that stuff she has been saying about hardly knowing him is rubbish . |
| 2 | She 'd been thinking about becoming a nun but she could n't be with a baby . |
| 3 | She 'd been thinking about something , or somebody , else . |
| 4 | Cos Ange said she 'd , she 'd been chatting about Jenny to her . |
| 5 | She 'd been reading about how Egyptians believed cats guided your dreams , and dreamed that she was roaming around their flat from a cat 's point of view . |
| 6 | It was something she 'd been wondering about . |
| 7 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 8 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 9 | She had been thinking about her future and discussing it with her parents , and all of them had decided to sell the shop . |
| 10 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 11 | It annoyed her even more that his continuing aristocratic demeanour disappointed her after the way she had been thinking about him . |
| 12 | She had been thinking about nothing else except this phone call for days now , wrestling with the conflict of emotions that were raging inside . |
| 13 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 14 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 15 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 16 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 17 | But er but er yeah , so but like , she 's been saying to me cos she 's been thinking about whether she is or not she er she 's been like like everywhere there 's babys and prams and everywhe , on the telly and everything , do you know what I mean ? |
| 18 | She 's been talking about it for ye the past year . |