Example sentences of "she have been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
| 2 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 3 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 4 | I was surprised because she 'd been throwing herself at him all day and not getting anywhere much . ’ |
| 5 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 6 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 7 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 8 | Cecilia would have been very surprised indeed if she had been wearing anything but jeans and a sweater or T-shirt , and she was not . |
| 9 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 10 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 11 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 12 | And romance — although ideally , if she had been advising him as a florist , she would have suggested roses instead of the more exotic lilies and orchids he had chosen . |
| 13 | Although she had been expecting something like this , Robbie 's mouth was suddenly dry , her tongue cleaving to the roof of her mouth . |
| 14 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 15 | She had been practising it on him for years . |
| 16 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 17 | Lindsey knew she had been fooling herself in thinking she could remain indifferent . |
| 18 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 19 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 20 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 21 | All their eyes were turned on Rose but she , with just a glance at Moran , took up the Second Mystery as if she had been saying it with them all the nights of their lives . |
| 22 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 23 | She 's been recording us for an hour |
| 24 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
| 25 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 26 | She 's been fretting herself to flinders , in case you should 've changed your mind . ’ |