Example sentences of "[adv] that she have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 2 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 3 | I have never known anyone work like it — and I discovered today that she had been writing articles for the Clarion Cry at midnight on top of everything else she did in the house . |
| 4 | Miss Malabedeely had been kneeling by a chair , praying , and Kate had thought immediately that she 'd been asking God to stop Miss Shaw and Miss Rist being so unpleasant to her . |
| 5 | She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’ |
| 6 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |