Example sentences of "she [verb] been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been teaching approximately 10 hours a week including one session for children and one for the elderly . |
| 2 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 3 | After six years of marriage , however , Adrienne finds she has been strolling unwittingly through a psychological jungle . |
| 4 | She has been feeding intensively in the neighbourhood , building up in her body the reserves from which she will produce her eggs . |
| 5 | She has been moving well in home gallops and defends her record in the Gainsborough Stud Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 6 | She has not seen much of Montparnasse recently , she confesses to her readers , she has been staying indoors ‘ nursing a sick wasp and writing a comic romance . |
| 7 | She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away . |
| 8 | She feels stripped and humiliated , she has been performing publicly . |
| 9 | Recently , she has been working closely with the stylist Judy Blame , ‘ as his sort of taste bud ’ , styling Neneh Cherry , Tackhead and new artist Harriet . |
| 10 | It may be that he or she has been working quietly away in the background or it could be a single , dramatic act of true heroism in harrowing circumstances that we hear about but often goes unrewarded . |
| 11 | Anyway , she 'd been drinking too much , of late . |
| 12 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 13 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |
| 14 | Presumably he had snatched a few more hours ' sleep , she decided morosely , while she 'd been traipsing fruitlessly up and down Strøget . |
| 15 | The flood of gratitude she felt at Guy 's surprise appearance was as illogically powerful as the tide of resentment she 'd been harbouring earlier . |
| 16 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 17 | Ten minutes later , dressed in a pair of grey trousers and the same red jacket she 'd been wearing yesterday , she was turning into the hotel car park , slotting her Mini quickly into one of the spaces , then striding resolutely towards the hotel 's main entrance . |
| 18 | Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair . |
| 19 | But thinking about Guido and the race were two things she 'd been trying very hard not to do . |
| 20 | apparently she does n't know why they sacked her she said , they sacked apparently something to do with she 'd been asking too many questions or something and but she |
| 21 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 22 | She 'd been doing more and more of his work for him . |
| 23 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 24 | Course she 'd been working hard well er not working hard you know just in the cleaning like that . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | I 'm sure she 'd been sitting there , but she was hardly wearing anything ! |
| 27 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 28 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 29 | She did n't know how long she 'd been lying there . |
| 30 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |