Example sentences of "she [verb] been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been there for two years . |
| 2 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 3 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 4 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 5 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 6 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 7 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 8 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 9 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 10 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 11 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 12 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 13 | She had been seriously into pink for a year ; Victoria indulged her with delight and stifled the protests of her own aesthetic sense . |
| 14 | She 's been up since six and he is up |
| 15 | ‘ I daresay she 's been up since three , being horsey . ’ ) |
| 16 | Nobody 's gon na tell if she 's been here since five . |
| 17 | She 's been out with enough lads to know he 's the right one for her , ’ Maureen said . |
| 18 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 19 | ‘ Ought n't you to be fetching Lisa — she 's been there since 3 and if they 're having a party tonight they 'd probably like to get her off their hands . ’ |