Example sentences of "she have [be] [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 Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’
9 She feels stripped and humiliated , she has been performing publicly .
10 Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’
14 Anyway , she 'd been drinking too much , of late .
15 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 .
16 She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night .
17 Presumably he had snatched a few more hours ' sleep , she decided morosely , while she 'd been traipsing fruitlessly up and down Strøget .
18 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 .
19 But she 'd been smoking too much , as well .
20 Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 But thinking about Guido and the race were two things she 'd been trying very hard not to do .
24 She 'd been letting on that she lived in one of those posh houses .
25 She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and
26 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
27 as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it .
28 She 'd been doing more and more of his work for him .
29 Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared .
30 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 . ’
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