Example sentences of "she have be [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’ |
| 2 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 3 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
| 4 | My local bank manager said that means she 'd been renting a deposit box . |
| 5 | But er she said she 'd been feeling a bit rough recently . |
| 6 | Dawson was aware that she 'd been combating a bout of ill-temper since he 'd arrived . |
| 7 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 8 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 9 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
| 10 | This point was developed in Traynor v Donovan [ 1978 ] CLY 2612 , where the court refused to make any reduction because the plaintiff 's injuries would have been just as severe , but of a different nature , if she had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 11 | Her main interest was in the time course of memory formation , and she had been using a variety of drugs , including agents which disrupt entry of ions such as potassium into the cell , and also protein synthesis inhibitors , to dissect out a series of phases , which she described as short- , intermediate- and long-term memory . |
| 12 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 13 | She had been thinking a lot about the conversation she and Leila had had back at Lazar 's , the talk of sky cities and escape . |
| 14 | 19 October 1799 ; off the southern tip of the Isle of Weight she had been escorting a convoy of merchant ships through the English Channel until , in comparative safety , the convoy dispersed to their destinations . |
| 15 | She had been reading a lot of self-help books and this was her conclusion . |
| 16 | She had been expecting a visit from Rick Lawrence ; if Lou 's predictions were correct she would have changed from her working clothes into something more alluring and put on fresh make-up and perfume to receive him . |
| 17 | She had been expecting a lift which failed to materialise , defending solicitor Mark Blundell told the court . |
| 18 | All their married life she had been living a lie . |
| 19 | It was as if she had been playing a part with all her might for several months , but it had sapped her energy . |
| 20 | ‘ She had been making a noise last season and was Hobdayed during the winter . |
| 21 | She had been making a cup of coffee and was leaning over a lit ring on the gas cooker to put the kettle on . |
| 22 | It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true . |
| 23 | She had been following a trail Minter had turned his back on , but Harry had the photographs to keep him on course . |
| 24 | She 's been eating a seagull . |
| 25 | Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see |