Example sentences of "she have be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 2 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By the way — ’ Helen paused , ‘ — she has been gathering some gossip that will probably interest you . |
| 5 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 6 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 7 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 8 | One source said : ’ She has been rewriting all the Prime Minister 's press releases . |
| 9 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 10 | Ever since , she has been delighting deaf people she encounters by communicating in their own language . |
| 11 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 12 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 13 | Since her two daughters have left home she has been researching 18th Century records preparatory to writing biographies of some political reformers . |
| 14 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 15 | She 'd been dreading this . |
| 16 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 17 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 18 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 19 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 20 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 21 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 22 | She 'd been feeling lonely and vulnerable . |
| 23 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 24 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 25 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 26 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 27 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 28 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 29 | She had been wearing blue faded jeans , and a white sweat shirt flattened against the pointed nipples and the upturned breasts ; the cotton seeming too thin a protection against the freshening onshore breeze . |
| 30 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |