Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] making " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 2 | ‘ She had been making a noise last season and was Hobdayed during the winter . |
| 3 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 4 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 5 | And when she returned he would imagine that he could see the glow of the skin , the satisfied smile of remembered happiness , could almost smell that she had been making love . |
| 6 | She had been making her way towards Mrs Gracie 's door after walking a little . |
| 7 | There , on the deep-piled carpet of the elegant apartment on rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré , she had been making love to a man incarcerated in the slums of Beirut . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 10 | Already , when she had been making the tea , the first exhibit of the day had arrived , brought in no doubt by a detective constable working on the case . |
| 11 | Lesley came towards him , veering from the advance she had been making upon Charlotte . |
| 12 | She had been making a cup of coffee and was leaning over a lit ring on the gas cooker to put the kettle on . |
| 13 | She 's been making it up . |
| 14 | For the last few weeks the baby inside her had been making itself felt . |