Example sentences of "she be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had she been watching for ? |
| 2 | Has she been bleeding for a two week period ? |
| 3 | What on earth had she been thinking of ? |
| 4 | What had she been thinking of ? |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , come up to The Towers for the afternoon ( who had she been talking to ? ) . |
| 6 | What had she been doing on her own up there by the long barrow ? |
| 7 | ‘ Leithia Everett here , ’ Leith announced formally , and without pausing to let the secretary get a word in , had she been going to , ‘ Would you give Mr Massingham my apologies , please ? |
| 8 | The first time out she had seen nothing but a sea of faces , so hard had she been concentrating on what she was doing . |
| 9 | What 's she been saying about Billy Rich ? |
| 10 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 11 | But was there a market in Glasgow for a quality product ; should she be thinking of Edinburgh instead ? |
| 12 | ‘ What can she be thinking of ? |
| 13 | Neither would she be shouting about their liaison from the rooftops . |
| 14 | And what would she be doing with her Saturday ? she wondered grimly . |
| 15 | ‘ Is she smiling at me ? ’ was quickly followed by ‘ Who else could she be smiling at ? ’ |
| 16 | She twisted in the seat to peer at every building , her eyes seeking the upper windows above shops rather than the goods on display , as if she were looking for someone . |
| 17 | But at the sight of Bob 's expression she got up , blushing again , and walked about the room as if she were looking for something . |
| 18 | But there was more than that — it was almost as if she were looking for something . |
| 19 | He handed her the file , watching her flick through it quickly , again as if she were looking for something specific . |
| 20 | So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out . |
| 21 | So she jumped up , grabbed the pencil and everything , she got a screwdriver first , I thought she were gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were looking for a pencil |
| 22 | Her expression was one of utter distaste , as though she were looking at something a dog had done in the middle of the floor . |
| 23 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 24 | Mrs Gray sounded as though she were trying to be fair . |
| 25 | She was anxious not to make a noise , but even though her feet fell softly into the leaves strewing the path the wood was so still and silent that she really felt as if she were thudding through the wood . |
| 26 | Seated in the tube train , she felt as if she were thundering through the earth in a time-capsule , guided by a power greater than herself , without real roots or destination . |
| 27 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
| 28 | She looked as if she were drowning in a goldfish tank . |
| 29 | Claudia felt as if she were drowning in a pool of conflicting emotions ; the last thing she wanted was to go anywhere with Roman and yet the thought of being with him for a little while longer filled her with delight . |
| 30 | Folly felt as if she were struggling against a tide . |