Example sentences of "[noun] she have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 2 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 3 | Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days . |
| 4 | Bernice quickly unrolled the bundle she 'd been carrying beneath her arm and thrust Ace 's blood-soaked jacket into the Doctor 's hands . |
| 5 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 6 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 7 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 8 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 9 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 10 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 11 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 12 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 13 | A couple of times she 's been standing behind a door , open it , smash her brains in . |
| 14 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 15 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 16 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 17 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 18 | Four days ago in a similar quiet period she had been gossiping with her uncle , listening to his barbed comments on affairs , on the art world , and on his family . |
| 19 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 20 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 21 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 22 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 23 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 24 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 25 | In the 19 years she has been working for Durham County Council 's social services the number of rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired has dropped to one . |
| 26 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 27 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 28 | But last night a source close to Jagger said : ‘ All that stuff she has been saying about hardly knowing him is rubbish . |
| 29 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 30 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |