Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patten , accused of playing a leading part in her downfall , has been taking her advice on how to deal with China over the 1997 hand-over of the colony . |
| 2 | Mrs Brown has been lobbying her MP the Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd for help , even to the extent of standing against him in the recent general election . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 5 | Ms Siobhan Fahey ( see below ) has been explaining her emigration to the south of France . |
| 6 | She decides to seek medical help for bulimia , the nervous illness that has been dogging her marriage almost from the start . |
| 7 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 8 | It was only then she realised she 'd been holding her breath . |
| 9 | She 'd been wasting her time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 12 | She knew he 'd been studying her face while watching for her reaction . |
| 13 | She 'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He might have been reading her mind . |
| 16 | Perhaps he should have been expecting her question . |
| 17 | She may have been doubting her faith , or at least questioning it . |
| 18 | It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation . |
| 19 | The mystery man seen leaving a restaurant with the Princess of Wales is a former Coronation Street actor who is thought to have been giving her voice coaching , it was disclosed last night . |
| 20 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 21 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 22 | She was adamant that she had been wearing her G-string at the time — round her ankle . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Tilda , who had been holding her breath , let it go . |
| 26 | She realised with a shock that , while waiting for the disaster she believed was inevitable , she had been holding her breath . |
| 27 | On a bench a young woman with red hair had been suckling her baby . |
| 28 | Jane had been sharing her life and home with a partner , John , for four years . |
| 29 | The hand that had been caressing her breast , stopped abruptly . |
| 30 | ‘ And pears , ’ interjected Gwendolen , who had been reading her guide books . |