Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petula has been living at her London home this year while Claude has stayed in Geneva . |
| 2 | She has been living with her friend Jane Eager at Scira Court , Wylam Avenue , Darlington , since October and applied to the council as a homeless person last month . |
| 3 | Maria Harris has been staying with her parents at Wood Farm since returning to Britain just days before Saddam Hussein 's forces marched in , exactly two months ago . |
| 4 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 5 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 6 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 7 | The Blackrag Madonna nods as he speaks , then whispers to a scrap of a follower who has been hiding in her robes throughout the interview . |
| 8 | Tania Probyn has been missing from her home in Whitminster in Gloucestershire for five days now . |
| 9 | CONCERN was growing today for a 13-year-old schoolgirl who has been missing from her home in Limerick for six days . |
| 10 | Cleveland Police are concerned for the safety of 15-year-old Anne-Marie Marshall , who has been missing from her home in Rounton Green , Berwick Hills , Middlesbrough , since Monday . |
| 11 | A mother of triplets , who almost had one of her babies snatched by a bogus health worker , has been talking about her ordeal . |
| 12 | A sixty seven year old woman who was raped as she returned home from church on Christmas day has been talking about her horrifying ordeal . |
| 13 | THE Duchess of York has been talking about her new job roving UN ambassador to express the plight of refugees . |
| 14 | Mother Teresa of Calcutta has been talking of her concern for the victims of Aids . |
| 15 | Just before the start of this extract , Brenda has been talking with her friends about an incident at a party . |
| 16 | It 's like a little girl has been playing with her mother 's scissors , and she sat in front of the mirror wondering what her mother 's going to say , and whether if she snips a little more it 'll be OK . |
| 17 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 18 | She 'd been looking after her father , who 'd become ill , probably because of the fumes . |
| 19 | He 's going to be ages , thought Juliet desperately , suddenly realising she 'd been standing with her hands clenched together , and her eyes screwed tightly as if to hear better . |
| 20 | Bernice quickly unrolled the bundle she 'd been carrying beneath her arm and thrust Ace 's blood-soaked jacket into the Doctor 's hands . |
| 21 | He did it automatically when the girl attacked the man who 'd been fighting with her father , recognizing it as a natural reaction to shock and grief . |
| 22 | Things did go wrong … she 'd trusted in the powers of justice and compassion before , and she 'd lost her mother … she 'd trusted Mortimer with her friendship and he 'd betrayed her … trusted Guy with the whole of her heart and soul last night and all the time he 'd been laughing behind her back at the ‘ sexy redhead ’ from Chesters … |
| 23 | She discovered she 'd been sleeping on her back . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Could she have been thinking of her real brother ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ So , by preventing Heather from leaving , you would have been acting in her best interests as well as yours ? ’ |
| 27 | How many of these songs could she have been singing to her daddy ? |
| 28 | ‘ Whoever did it must have been aiming at her head but thankfully they missed . |
| 29 | She should have been rebelling against her parents , not against him . |
| 30 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |