Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] she have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that she was a freelance editor for OUP , with a daughter in her early teens and a seven-year-old son for whom she had been caring single-handedly since her husband 's untimely death . |
| 2 | Crews are fairly divided according to age and experience , and all 130 competitors had to raise £14,850 for their berth — Justine is jointly sponsored by Price Waterhouse and Blackburn-based accountancy firm Porter Matthews and Marsden , for which she has been working . |
| 3 | Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car . |
| 4 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
| 5 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 6 | The company with whom she had been playing tennis and swimming and was now sitting , were an old friend she had known since Pony Club days , and her newly acquired husband , and David Fairfax , Junior , son of the house , spectacled and earnest and studying to be a chartered accountant . |
| 7 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 8 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 10 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 11 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |
| 12 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 13 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 14 | And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’ |
| 15 | Dorothea Gilberd edged away from the parents to whom she had been uttering words of reassurance about their little Philip 's future and glided quite at random in the direction of Tom Tedder . |
| 16 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 17 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 18 | ‘ She obviously has n't been too careful about what she 's been eating . ’ |
| 19 | His words carried the ring of truth , and Folly felt a flush of shame at what she had been imagining . |