Example sentences of "she [vb -s] be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
| 2 | She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation . |
| 3 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 4 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 5 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 6 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |
| 8 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 9 | She 's been hiding behind that chair and |
| 10 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 11 | She 's been living with this guy for months , by all accounts , so she 's probably immune to his germs by now . |
| 12 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 13 | Then Joseph snapped : ‘ God knows who she 's been letting into this house . ’ |
| 14 | She 's been going for that ra is it radium ? |
| 15 | Musically , too , she 's been striding into new territory , celebrating all kinds of Forties swing on her latest LP , Captain Swing . |
| 16 | Oh Jane , yeah well she 's been , she 's been suffering with that back a long , long time |