Example sentences of "she have [be] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term .
2 This profound sense of destiny which has influenced her life gives her an intuitive awareness that she has been singled out for a special role .
3 Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’
4 She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job .
5 Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library
6 She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 .
7 She 'd been sent there for contempt of court by Essex magistrates when she refused to answer questions about her personal finances in a poll tax case .
8 as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it .
9 Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours .
10 When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours .
11 Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months .
12 The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said .
13 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 .
14 It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long .
15 Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk .
16 Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years .
17 Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips .
18 Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours .
19 And when she 's been confined there for days you sometimes have n't bothered with a towel .
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