Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] she have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She guessed it would be Nicky Kai , eager to hear her singing the praises of her beloved island once more , and she might be willing to stay and share the light supper she had been planning for herself as it was Sunday , the one evening of the week on which Florian might occasionally make a concession to the fact of his breakfast show slot and retire soon after dark . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought that — wondered if it was — suicide because of this man she 'd been seeing , ’ Merrill said in a small voice . |
| 3 | And although Gramps had left her enough money for just this purpose she 'd been hoping to live cheaply so that she could stay in Ireland for at least a month , see as much of the country as she could . |
| 4 | All this time she had been imagining him pacing the terrace at Rocamar . |
| 5 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 6 | On the day when Katherine came home to find the easel her father had given her collapsed on the floor and the careful copy she had been making of Vermeer 's ‘ Girl with a Mandolin' splattered with red paint , she made her decision . |
| 7 | At one point the mistress of disguise demonstrated to her co-accused how the ginger wig she had been wearing when they were stopped by police , fell off as she adjusted her hat . |
| 8 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 9 | But last night a source close to Jagger said : ‘ All that stuff she has been saying about hardly knowing him is rubbish . |
| 10 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 11 | It was too mortifying for words , and it intensified the vulnerable feeling she 'd been experiencing around Guy Sterne . |
| 12 | All morning she had been watching low-slung , sharp-nosed cars complete several circuits , then draw into the pits to be set upon by swarms of mechanics and subjected to intensive fine-tuning . |
| 13 | All season she had been getting more and more angry with herself when she played badly and there were times , when she was at her most frustrated , that she would savagely scratch the skin from her forehead . |
| 14 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 15 | All their married life she had been living a lie . |
| 16 | He was probably quite old , then , Lindsey thought , busily fitting pieces into the mental jigsaw she had been trying to build up of her new boss . |
| 17 | She opened a small peacock-blue fan she had been holding and began to fan herself . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was a phrase from the very page she had been reading . |
| 20 | Close behind him followed Alain Lemarchand , looking more suspicious than intrigued , and Glyn said the very thing she had been praying for . |
| 21 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 22 | Mabel was in the habit of throwing missiles at the Bargees and lightermen in her earlier years and one day she had been aiming coke at a local lighterman , Ben Johnson . |
| 23 | It was the only thing she 'd been wearing that had n't come away when they undressed . |
| 24 | The only thing she 'd been trying to do was calm Guido down and defuse the situation . |
| 25 | Ten minutes later , dressed in a pair of grey trousers and the same red jacket she 'd been wearing yesterday , she was turning into the hotel car park , slotting her Mini quickly into one of the spaces , then striding resolutely towards the hotel 's main entrance . |
| 26 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 27 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 28 | She had discarded the dirty wrapper she had been wearing and had on long silky black stockings and suspenders , a black peephole bra and crutchless panties . |
| 29 | Ever since she had realised that he was the new officer she had been dreading the moment they would have to actually start working together . |
| 30 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |