Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 2 | Craig 's greatest impact on Jo has been teasing her into taking work less seriously . |
| 3 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
| 4 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course — but unfortunately overlooked , ’ he replied straight away , and as it came to her that he must have been teasing her with his earlier attitude , he was asking , ‘ Now , can I get you a glass of wine ? ’ |
| 6 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 7 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 8 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |
| 9 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 10 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 11 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 12 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 13 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 14 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 15 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 16 | Roman had been holding her in his arms and she had n't been fighting — no wonder Dana was furious . |
| 17 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |
| 18 | The softly spoken threat cut through the haze fogging her brain and she sat bolt upright , knocking away the hand that had been caressing her into submission almost without her realising it . |
| 19 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 20 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 21 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 22 | Mrs Phelps , who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks , now got up from her desk and went over to her . |
| 23 | He had been watching her without a flicker of expression . |
| 24 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 25 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 26 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 27 | Last night , she had taken one of the wolfdogs that had been following her for weeks . |
| 28 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |
| 29 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 30 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |