Example sentences of "[noun sg] that she have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 2 | He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut . |
| 3 | She had n't realized until she was bumping along the road away from the dock that she 'd been shaking like an aspen leaf . |
| 4 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 5 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 6 | The fan that she had been waving stopped in mid motion and clicked shut . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 8 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 9 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 10 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 11 | Her pony-tail was weaving like a snake , and she was still dressed in blood-stained black armour and shiny leggings ; the same kit that she had been wearing when Ardamal and his section had dragged her , kicking and screaming , into the IMC executive transporter . |
| 12 | The summer school job that she 'd been relying on had been cancelled at the very last minute and other temporary jobs were a bit thin on the ground . |
| 13 | A Lebanese chauffeur who denies Kim 's manslaughter has told the court that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 14 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 15 | She said in a rage that she had been thinking it was rough on him to belong to a society with a theology of gambling . |
| 16 | She pulled off the scarf that she had been wearing round her head to protect her ears and prevent her hair getting into her eyes and mouth . |
| 17 | The handkerchief that she 'd been twisting and untwisting at our first interview came out again , this time to her eyes . |
| 18 | She now set out to please my mother , not by pretence that she had been spending her time worthily , but in shared reminiscence . |
| 19 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 20 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 21 | The fact that she had been protecting Ana brought a flashing glance from Felipe but he did not soften at all . |