Example sentences of "[conj] she have been [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme . |
| 2 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 3 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 4 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 5 | Dawson was aware that she 'd been combating a bout of ill-temper since he 'd arrived . |
| 6 | Her main interest was in the time course of memory formation , and she had been using a variety of drugs , including agents which disrupt entry of ions such as potassium into the cell , and also protein synthesis inhibitors , to dissect out a series of phases , which she described as short- , intermediate- and long-term memory . |
| 7 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 8 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 9 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
| 10 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 11 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 12 | This point was developed in Traynor v Donovan [ 1978 ] CLY 2612 , where the court refused to make any reduction because the plaintiff 's injuries would have been just as severe , but of a different nature , if she had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 13 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |
| 14 | It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true . |
| 15 | It was as if she had been playing a part with all her might for several months , but it had sapped her energy . |
| 16 | Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see |
| 17 | ‘ Well ? ’ she says as though she 's been waiting a long time . |
| 18 | She has moved from Arrow , and is just the sort of author who can benefit from a change of publisher , for she has been slipping a little recently . |