Example sentences of "she have been [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She rings the same number she has been trying all day .
2 Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes .
3 Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow .
4 She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident .
5 I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’
6 As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays .
7 For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then .
8 She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning .
9 Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs .
10 I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice .
11 She had been imagining this meeting for some time .
12 If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit .
13 ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’
14 Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but
15 She 's been screaming all ear .
16 I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal .
17 That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’
18 She 's been crying all night really .
19 every time I look , turn round , she 's been visiting some aids patient
20 ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’
21 It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years .
22 No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time .
23 She 's been going some years . ’
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