Example sentences of "she have just [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 | The gleam in his eyes made her uncomfortably certain he knew perfectly well what she 'd just been thinking . |
| 4 | She 'd just been visiting a widow of an old army friend of Yury 's , who had a bad attack of flu . |
| 5 | She remembered what she 'd just been doing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The clang of a sword blade ringing on the stones where she had just been standing made the order unnecessary . |
| 8 | but she 's just been crying nonstop . |