Example sentences of "she have been [v-ing] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been rebuilding her confidence after her Barcelona setback — and after breaking the European , Commonwealth and UK all-comers ' 2,000 metres record in 5min 40.90sec at the TSB International in Birmingham at the weekend , the Musselburgh runner says she will consider running the 3,000m in Toronto . |
| 2 | Life with Mary Top eventer Mary Thomson describes the work she has been giving her horses . |
| 3 | It was only then she realised she 'd been holding her breath . |
| 4 | She 'd been wasting her time . |
| 5 | Since she 'd been wearing her seatbelt and travelling at a very slow speed , she was n't hurt , but the shock was enough to make her tremble . |
| 6 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 7 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 8 | She 'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half . |
| 9 | She was adamant that she had been wearing her G-string at the time — round her ankle . |
| 10 | Another discovered she had toothache one evening as she had been clenching her teeth all afternoon ! |
| 11 | Suddenly conscious that she had been holding her breath , Katherine pulled the door closed and then leaned back against the wall , aware of the pounding of her heart . |
| 12 | She realised with a shock that , while waiting for the disaster she believed was inevitable , she had been holding her breath . |
| 13 | ‘ She had been reading her stars on a daily basis like everybody does . |
| 14 | In both cases the choice is between the serious but dull ( when seeing Paul she had been completing her thesis on religious poetry ) and the creative but frivolous ( she collaborates with Bernard on a book about adultery in medieval literature ) . |
| 15 | She had been making her way towards Mrs Gracie 's door after walking a little . |
| 16 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 17 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 18 | After she had been practising her exercise for about ten days , she had gone out intending to walk to the local post office . |
| 19 | She had been rolling her hips as she held the tip of his impatient knob just inside her cunt lips . |
| 20 | She was dimly aware that she had been treating her friends badly . |
| 21 | She dropped her lifted velvet skirts ( she had been warming her bottom in front of the fire burning fiercely in its basket grate ) as the girls appeared . |
| 22 | Naturally he had associated her remark with Hugh , whereas she had been recalling her dream , the dream in which Fen had appeared as the waiting bridegroom . |
| 23 | She now set out to please my mother , not by pretence that she had been spending her time worthily , but in shared reminiscence . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sure I shall now , ’ Peony thought , the more bitterly because she had been repressing her disappointment . |
| 25 | She had been painting her nails ; she spread out her hands , like plump white starfish , to admire the finished effect . |
| 26 | She 's been telling her fibs again . ’ |
| 27 | You know she 's been hiding her light under a bushel , a bush . |
| 28 | Ever since her children started school she 's been filling her time making sculptures from scrap . |
| 29 | She 's been seeing her therapist again , thought Henry , as he stumbled towards the Passat . |
| 30 | She apologizes for being thirty seconds late and says she 's been having her nails done . |