Example sentences of "she [vb past] be [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 2 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 3 | When she changed schools , however , the maths A level course was different from the one she 'd been following at her old school , but the new teacher expected her to catch up immediately . |
| 4 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 5 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 6 | I saw what she 'd been smiling at . |
| 7 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 8 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 9 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 10 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 11 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 12 | ‘ If you continue to look at me like that we sha n't make it any further than the nearest bed , ’ he murmured , and Claudia jumped ; she had been staring at him hungrily . |
| 13 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 14 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 15 | She had been working at the Hopeland missionary camp , helping educate teenage boys . |
| 16 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 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 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 19 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |