Example sentences of "she [verb] been using " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 2 | I felt that her character had been revealed and , what was more , that she 'd been using me . |
| 3 | Pulling a little face , she carefully folded the tea-towel she 'd been using and laid it on the work surface . |
| 4 | She was still wearing her apron which , evidently , she had been using to wipe away her tears ; as a result there were grease marks all over her face , giving her the appearance of a participant in a minstrel show . |
| 5 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 6 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 7 | Her main interest was in the time course of memory formation , and she had been using a variety of drugs , including agents which disrupt entry of ions such as potassium into the cell , and also protein synthesis inhibitors , to dissect out a series of phases , which she described as short- , intermediate- and long-term memory . |
| 8 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
| 9 | She sat up and rubbed her eyes , colouring furiously as she realised she had been using Roman 's shoulder for a head-rest . |
| 10 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 11 | She 's been using Gloucestershire 's libraries for ninety three years . |