Example sentences of "the [noun pl] she have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ And this year you 're crazy about Maria Luisa , ’ Ruth murmured , gazing down at the fingers she had been wringing till they were red and hot . |
2 | ‘ He said he 'd see you today , ’ Dana said , perching on the edge of Claudia 's desk , scattering the designs she had been working on , much to her annoyance . |
3 | It turns out that half the words she 's been teaching me are all wrong . |
4 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
5 | After the things she 'd been thinking , his touch would probably make her burst into flames . |
6 | Later , he called her in to discuss the files she had been studying . |
7 | She did n't say a word to her , but instead opened the boot of the car and loaded in the folders she had been carrying . |
8 | This time there was no mistaking the command , but , short of trying out one of the manoeuvres she had been learning in a regular martial arts class , there was n't much she could do about it . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared . |
11 | At the sound of the voice coming from behind her , Jill jerked forward , scattering the boxes she had been stacking . |
12 | Hour after hour , the thoughts she had been pushing back came pouring out . |
13 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
14 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |