Example sentences of "she have been doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 2 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 3 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |
| 4 | Unless she is very lucky , she will be the one who will be expected to provide the stimulation , for her elderly parent may have been alone since breakfast-time , and will be waiting to be ‘ cheered up ’ by stories of all she has been doing during the day . |
| 5 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
| 6 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 7 | She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’ |
| 8 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 9 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd been doing more and more of his work for him . |
| 11 | You 'd think she 'd been doing it all her life . |
| 12 | Linda Johnson felt as though she 'd been doing nothing but prepare for Christmas for months and was exhausted before it all began . |
| 13 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 14 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 15 | But what would she have been doing in Southwark ? |
| 16 | Then , abjectly , as if engaged in reflection that gave back only its own dullness , she completed the tasks she had been doing and , without saying a word to the expectant children , left the room . |
| 17 | She plunged into the crowds , who had turned out in their thousands to greet her , as though she had been doing it all her life . |
| 18 | Rather desperately , Celia steered the conversation round to her and Brian 's new house in the country , how Alison and Geoffrey must come and stay , that they would be less than fifty miles apart ; while Alison , obviously thankful to turn to less delicate matters , regaled her with a description of all she had been doing in her garden and some rather dull anecdotes about the neighbours whom Celia and Brian had met on their last visit . |
| 19 | Meredith told him what she had been doing since they last met and Markby gave a summary of his own activities . |
| 20 | They had watched her , in the council estate , they knew what she had been doing . |
| 21 | She had known why Mr Evans had sent Hepzibah biscuits ; had known that he wanted her to spy , to keep her eyes open , and it seemed that without meaning to she had been doing just that ! |
| 22 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 23 | David gave up his job as the headmaster of a primary school near St Helens in Lancashire earlier this year , his wife , Vicky gave up the job of supply teaching she had been doing and , with their two children , Jonathan ( 11 ) and Patrick ( 5 ) , set off in May last year for some serious cruising , which includes going transatlantic with the ARC . |
| 24 | of course , that 's exactly what she had been doing . |
| 25 | Planning is just what she had been doing . |
| 26 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
| 27 | She remembered quite clearly what she had been doing scarce ten minutes ago . |
| 28 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 29 | Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car . |
| 30 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |