Example sentences of "she have been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been letting on that she lived in one of those posh houses . |
| 2 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |
| 5 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 6 | She 'd been taken on by Harman almost as — well yes , his protégé really . |
| 7 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 8 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 9 | She looked at the layout she had been working on . |
| 10 | ‘ He said he 'd see you today , ’ Dana said , perching on the edge of Claudia 's desk , scattering the designs she had been working on , much to her annoyance . |
| 11 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 12 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 13 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 15 | She was horrified ; not only because she could see how Beth had thoroughly exhausted herself , but because she had been taken on two weeks ago by Mr Miller , who had told her categorically , ‘ I do n't want Mrs Miller tackling any of the heavier domestic tasks , you understand ? |
| 16 | She had been taken on straightaway , and was now settled in the position . |
| 17 | She had been passed on to Marie after two of the other trainees on the Community Care Course had failed to ‘ get on ’ with her . |
| 18 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 19 | She had meant only to run up the road for a breath of air when the rain stopped and she had been drawn on into the spring evening until now she had half an hour 's brisk walk to get home . |
| 20 | all da evening but then like last night see if I know that she 's been chomping on and off all night she 'll go for four or five hours . |
| 21 | And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’ |