Example sentences of "[noun] she have been [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 2 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 3 | ‘ He said he 'd see you today , ’ Dana said , perching on the edge of Claudia 's desk , scattering the designs she had been working on , much to her annoyance . |
| 4 | She and Jack , the boy she had been walking out with , were saving up so that they could buy the shop from old Mr Peabody , who wanted to retire . |
| 5 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 6 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 7 | Somehow she managed to take a proper breath , not the little shallow gasps she had been giving up to now . |
| 8 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 9 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |
| 10 | Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared . |
| 11 | Hour after hour , the thoughts she had been pushing back came pouring out . |
| 12 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |
| 13 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 14 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
| 15 | She looked at the layout she had been working on . |