Example sentences of "she have been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 2 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 3 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 4 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 5 | She 'd been counting on rescue services arriving with the dawn , but maybe they would n't be coming after all . |
| 6 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 7 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 8 | The summer school job that she 'd been relying on had been cancelled at the very last minute and other temporary jobs were a bit thin on the ground . |
| 9 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 10 | She 'd been sitting on the edge of the bed when they 'd arrived , two large uniformed men . |
| 11 | She discovered she 'd been sleeping on her back . |
| 12 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 13 | Constance had lost Ludo — something she had been dreading on the journey up from Florence — but she was not alarmed . |
| 14 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 15 | She had been working on them ever since she had got home , reading and re-reading the articles , but there was still no clue to unravel the mystery . |
| 16 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 17 | She had been sleeping on the same step for three nights . |
| 18 | She had been relying on her blade , her teeth and her hands for too long . |
| 19 | She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action . |
| 20 | She had been standing on her own , holding a teacup in front of her , not looking about her , but rather fixedly out of the window , as though she expected no one to approach and invited no one . |
| 21 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 22 | She had been sitting on the shingle staring out to sea , her arms clasped round her knees , Timmy lying asleep on the small rug beside her . |
| 23 | She had been sitting on the edge of the bed , and now she leaned forward to take the other woman 's hand again . |
| 24 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 25 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 26 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 27 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 28 | you can guarantee it she goes to shops about eleven o'clock , she do n't come back till one because she 's been talking on shops , that 's her routine you know ? |
| 29 | Recently she 's been concentrating on developing her own career , with a new album doing the rounds , and a very heavy touring schedule in the offing . |