Example sentences of "[verb] she have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect she 's been sitting too long in the sun , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 3 | She apologizes for being thirty seconds late and says she 's been having her nails done . |
| 4 | Hello Claire says she 's been doing pie charts on your computer . |
| 5 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 6 | She let out the breath she had n't even realised she 'd been holding . |
| 7 | You 'd think she 'd been doing it all her life . |
| 8 | To hear Joan Marsdon talking of the PAT ( Pets as Therapy ) work she has done with her dogs Bewey , Chrissy and Beth , you would think she had been operating all her life . |
| 9 | She recovered it and was about to slip it back into the book , when she realized that if she put it back in the wrong place , Mark might think she had been snooping . |
| 10 | I do n't think she 's been saving I know that name is on my list . |
| 11 | It was only then she realised she 'd been holding her breath . |
| 12 | Virginia realised she 'd been gripping the steering-wheel unnecessarily tightly and consciously relaxed , forcing a laugh and wincing as the vibration worsened her headache . |
| 13 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 14 | She sat up and rubbed her eyes , colouring furiously as she realised she had been using Roman 's shoulder for a head-rest . |
| 15 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 16 | I 've been saying to her well you 'll have to wait she 's been saying her feet hurt , right ? |
| 17 | I mean she 's been living off what seventy three odd quid has she ? |
| 18 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 19 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 20 | He 's going to be ages , thought Juliet desperately , suddenly realising she 'd been standing with her hands clenched together , and her eyes screwed tightly as if to hear better . |
| 21 | She moved to the table , put her keys down , suddenly realising she had been clutching them tightly . |
| 22 | Carrie looked up at him and Seb could see she had been crying . |
| 23 | She said yeah I 'll be alright , but I could see she 'd been crying earlier on in the evening , she said you always feel as if you 're |
| 24 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 25 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't believe she 'd been drinking . |
| 27 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 28 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 29 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 30 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |