Example sentences of "she [vb -s] been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 2 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |
| 3 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 4 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 5 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 6 | Ever since , she has been delighting deaf people she encounters by communicating in their own language . |
| 7 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 8 | Since her two daughters have left home she has been researching 18th Century records preparatory to writing biographies of some political reformers . |
| 9 | ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’ |
| 10 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 11 | Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but |
| 12 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
| 13 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 14 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 15 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |
| 16 | She 's been crying all night really . |
| 17 | every time I look , turn round , she 's been visiting some aids patient |
| 18 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
| 19 | It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years . |
| 20 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |