Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 2 | Merlyn said : ‘ We ca n't have her going around saying what she has just been saying . |
| 3 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |
| 4 | ‘ She has obviously been practising hard , ’ said a BDA spokeswoman . |
| 5 | Shannon gave an involuntary little start as though someone had spoken the words aloud , then laughed self-consciously , realising she 'd simply been hearing the voice of a conscience that was inclined to be over-zealous in its insistence on honesty . |
| 6 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 7 | This one just flung the door open and she 'd either been standing behind it when I knocked or , more likely , she 'd seen me coming . |
| 8 | The gleam in his eyes made her uncomfortably certain he knew perfectly well what she 'd just been thinking . |
| 9 | She 'd just been visiting a widow of an old army friend of Yury 's , who had a bad attack of flu . |
| 10 | She remembered what she 'd just been doing . |
| 11 | His eyes raked mockingly over her dishevelled nakedness , and she shuddered , still caught up in the storm he had unleashed , but horrified , too , to realise what she 'd just been doing . |
| 12 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 13 | She 'd obviously been counting on me having one , because the chillim was poised at her lips , ready for her to pull in deeply when the surface leaves caught fire . |
| 14 | This was the moment she 'd frankly been dreading . |
| 15 | For the past week she 'd literally been counting the days . |
| 16 | She 'd only been trying to help . |
| 17 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 18 | All she knew was that she was turning into McAllister again , Dr Neil 's pert and lively maid , and that this was the haven which she had unconsciously been seeking in the months since Havvie Blaine had assaulted her . |
| 19 | She had even been going to write today as soon as Shirley had gone . |
| 20 | Jane carried the tray across to the police officers with what looked to the sergeant like absurd concentration and Dexter wondered uncharitably whether she had already been drinking . |
| 21 | What decided her in the end was that the new job specification covered much of the work she had already been doing at Stoy 's for C&R and she was loth to let it go . |
| 22 | The night she got pregnant she had already been feeling depressed , and afterwards she immediately regretted what had happened . |
| 23 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 24 | The clang of a sword blade ringing on the stones where she had just been standing made the order unnecessary . |
| 25 | She had also been feeling very tired , and had some pain and stiffness in her joints , which she thought was ‘ just her age ’ . |
| 26 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 27 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 28 | She knew all that and , more , she had actually been passing at the time . |
| 29 | To her annoyance she found that just for a while there , while they had been swimming and afterwards when they 'd first gone into the club , she had actually been enjoying his company . |
| 30 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |