Example sentences of "[conj] she have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 2 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 3 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 4 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 5 | And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about . |
| 6 | Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony . |
| 7 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 8 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 9 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |