Example sentences of "she [verb] been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beforehand , her PR people urge me not to ask her about Eric Clapton ( with whom she has been seen dining on at least one occasion at San Lorenzo 's in London ) , but that she would be willing to talk about her alcoholism . |
| 2 | For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies . |
| 3 | ‘ She has been taking medication but we do n't know yet whether that had anything to do with it . |
| 4 | ‘ She has been seeing James recently but she still loves Marco , ’ said Mrs Butcher . |
| 5 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 6 | She has been sculpting flowers , birds and animals for about 12 years . |
| 7 | In the new system , after a registered kidney donor has died , the hospital to which he or she has been taken contacts the nearest computer centre . |
| 8 | One might almost think , says Robert — our Robert , must I call him ? — that she has been directing affairs herself ! |
| 9 | ‘ She said she 'd been peeling onions . |
| 10 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 11 | From Jeff 's description , she 'd been expecting horns and cloven hoofs ! |
| 12 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 13 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
| 14 | Ever since Dad 's death , she 'd been reading letters from her mother singing Romano 's praises , and detailing the dangerous sports she 'd been encouraged to take up by the wretched man … |
| 15 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 16 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 17 | Oh she 'd been taking Matthew to work . |
| 18 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 19 | Miss Malabedeely had been kneeling by a chair , praying , and Kate had thought immediately that she 'd been asking God to stop Miss Shaw and Miss Rist being so unpleasant to her . |
| 20 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 21 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 22 | Jahsaxa swept into the tasteful reception room she 'd been keeping Roirbak and Tammuz waiting in for over half an hour . |
| 23 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 24 | She 'd been playing tennis , and was swinging her racquet as she walked . |
| 25 | It looked at first as if she had been drinking blood . |
| 26 | It might not be her number one priority but she had been organising people as long as she could remember . |
| 27 | Mabel was in the habit of throwing missiles at the Bargees and lightermen in her earlier years and one day she had been aiming coke at a local lighterman , Ben Johnson . |
| 28 | For so many years , she had been tied morning , noon and night to Jennie . |
| 29 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 30 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |