Example sentences of "she have [been] [verb] [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 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) The character in this closeup is speaking direct to camera , so she has been placed centrally in frame . |
| 5 | She has been feeding intensively in the neighbourhood , building up in her body the reserves from which she will produce her eggs . |
| 6 | She has been moving well in home gallops and defends her record in the Gainsborough Stud Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 7 | She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away . |
| 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 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sorry , I should explain to the committee that I was informed that the secretary who normally does the minutes for the half past one was sick , and had , she 'd been sent home by her doctor at lunch time , so I came back from lunch and had to come straight into committee , and I do apologize if I have missed bits of paper or whatever , I 've gathered up everything I could , but that might well be one of the things that I 've left behind . |
| 12 | She 'd been scooped ignominiously into her rescuer 's arms and carried with ease to the quayside . |
| 13 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | But he should have realised she 'd been carried away by the atmosphere , and the unexpected potency of the aquavit . |
| 16 | She 'd been taken completely by surprise , and fright added to her bewilderment . |
| 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 | He saw her dust devil from a long way away , and knew that she had been led here by her own dreams , by the pull of the moon . |
| 20 | I guessed that she had been blown far from her oasis , and now there was no landmark other than the wheelbarrow , not a tree , not a blade of grass , not a ripple on the plain , nor a rock bigger than my fist . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |
| 23 | Probably she had been kept late by whatever it was she was doing and had decided to leave it until the morning . |
| 24 | She had been sent away to school soon after this , so she had not noticed the beginning of the gradual retrenchment which had resulted in extreme economy . |
| 25 | Thérèse knew that she had been sent away from her parents at the age of two months , to be fed by Rose , that she had lived with Rose for sixteen months . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |