Example sentences of "she have been [v-ing] [adv] for " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 4 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 5 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 6 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 7 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
| 8 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 9 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 10 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 11 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 12 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |