Example sentences of "she have [be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " 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 | After six years of marriage , however , Adrienne finds she has been strolling unwittingly through a psychological jungle . |
| 3 | She has been feeding intensively in the neighbourhood , building up in her body the reserves from which she will produce her eggs . |
| 4 | She has been moving well in home gallops and defends her record in the Gainsborough Stud Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 5 | She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 8 | Recently , she has been working closely with the stylist Judy Blame , ‘ as his sort of taste bud ’ , styling Neneh Cherry , Tackhead and new artist Harriet . |
| 9 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
| 11 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 12 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 13 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |
| 14 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 15 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 16 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 17 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 18 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 19 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 20 | She had been calling out to him , pleading , arms outstretched , ‘ Wait for me . |
| 21 | Her face burned as she realised that while she had been soaring naïvely in previously unthought-of heights of bliss Luke Hunter had just been mentally carving another notch on his bed-post . |
| 22 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 23 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 24 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 25 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
| 26 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 27 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 28 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 29 | Since she had been drifting luxuriously into sleep , it took a second for the voice to register , but when it did , it acted like a bucket of ice-cold water flung over her sun-warmed limbs , and she jack-knifed upright , her eyes wide with shock . |
| 30 | She had been thinking more about her companion since the death of Spike . |