Example sentences of "she have been [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She has been sculpting flowers , birds and animals for about 12 years . |
| 3 | One might almost think , says Robert — our Robert , must I call him ? — that she has been directing affairs herself ! |
| 4 | ‘ She said she 'd been peeling onions . |
| 5 | From Jeff 's description , she 'd been expecting horns and cloven hoofs ! |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 9 | She had been supervising classes at the Manchester school and was , in fact , the Miss Walker that Anne Liddy remembered making her up on tour . |
| 10 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 11 | I have never known anyone work like it — and I discovered today that she had been writing articles for the Clarion Cry at midnight on top of everything else she did in the house . |
| 12 | She had been writing poems since her childhood , and at university was busy with poems , stories , editing the Smith Review , keeping up a high academic standard , and leading a full social life . |
| 13 | Dorothea Gilberd edged away from the parents to whom she had been uttering words of reassurance about their little Philip 's future and glided quite at random in the direction of Tom Tedder . |
| 14 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 15 | As he entered the garden through the back.gate , Isobel got up from in front of a flower bed where she had been planting bulbs . |
| 16 | And she did admit that she had been skipping things , you know , and erm I hoped it would go on alright , that was a couple of months ago . |
| 17 | She had been expecting changes and had steeled herself not to resent them . |
| 18 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 19 | Three months later she joined C&R on a full-time basis , although throughout her maternity leave she had been attending meetings and helping out on special project work . |
| 20 | She had been having fits of anger , and had been neglecting her children , I was told . |
| 21 | Andrew Walker was bound to have Veronica 's address and telephone number but a request for them , so soon after she had been asking questions about the woman 's husband , might well arouse his suspicions . |
| 22 | She had been washing dishes when he arrived . |
| 23 | She had been visiting relatives there . |
| 24 | From what I can gather from Joanie , she 's been taking drugs since her last year at school . |
| 25 | She 's been taking lessons at the Swallow flight centre since she was fourteen — now , on her seventeenth birthday she 's at last allowed to fly solo . |
| 26 | ‘ She 's been telling tales behind my back ! |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps she 's been thinking things out and she feels a bit sorry for you . ’ |