Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] she have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
2 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
3 | If it makes you feel any better , you may like to know that she 's been telling me that our separation was all my fault — because I was too proud to climb down , or admit I was in the wrong . |
4 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
5 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness . |
6 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
7 | Eventually all was well , pockets complete , only for her to find that she had been cutting out these pocket linings in her already prepared garment lining ! ! |
8 | The anger in Luke 's face had deepened while she had been speaking . |
9 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
10 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
11 | Miguel had been watching her , and she realised that she had been talking far too freely , and that she could n't see what he was thinking because of those dark glasses . |
12 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
13 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
14 | And when she returned he would imagine that he could see the glow of the skin , the satisfied smile of remembered happiness , could almost smell that she had been making love . |
15 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
16 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
17 | Surely he was n't implying that she had been trying out her feminine wiles on Sam ? |
18 | But now , when her mind travelled back , it was clear from the young man 's behaviour and some of the comments he had made that she had been suffering from myopia . |
19 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
20 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
21 | We asked if she had been shopping , and she said no , she had been to friends borrowing . |
22 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
23 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
24 | Catherine sounded suddenly exhausted , and as she gave him back the cup she turned towards him , letting him see that she had been crying , but without looking him in the face . |
25 | The two men could see that she had been crying , that she was still extremely distressed . |
26 | She resisted adding that she had been working overtime on his designs . |
27 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
28 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
29 | all da evening but then like last night see if I know that she 's been chomping on and off all night she 'll go for four or five hours . |
30 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |