Example sentences of "she have been [verb] for [num] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 6 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 7 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 8 | She had been flying for twelve years , had studied with her father who flew Concorde as a senior British Airways captain , and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday . |
| 9 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 10 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 11 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 12 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 13 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 14 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 15 | She had been widowed for five months , very nearly . |
| 16 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 17 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |