Example sentences of "she have been [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been taking a small holiday . |
| 2 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 3 | She is the Santa Maria del Sud and had recently been brought down under tow from the Argentine naval base near Buenos Aires where she has been undergoing a complete refit . |
| 4 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |
| 5 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
| 6 | I was sure she had been holding a small phial with the letters ‘ SUL ’ written on it . |
| 7 | She had been expecting a small , dusty room filled with paintings draped in cloths that were thick with dust , where air would have a musty scent of old canvas and decay . |
| 8 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 9 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 10 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 11 | True to the word , she had been adding a full bottle to her small garden pond on a weekly basis , for the past month . |
| 12 | She had been rehearsing a new song on the way to the Ritz , but did n't know who wrote it . |
| 13 | ‘ Well ? ’ she says as though she 's been waiting a long time . |