Example sentences of "[vb pp] that she have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 2 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness . |
| 4 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 5 | But now , when her mind travelled back , it was clear from the young man 's behaviour and some of the comments he had made that she had been suffering from myopia . |
| 6 | Katherine put down the empty glass with a start , she had n't realized that she had been drinking . |