Example sentences of "she have been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been recuperating from the shoulder wound at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic and had made enough progress to prompt speculation that she might , after all , be fit to defend her French Open title . |
| 2 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
| 3 | Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared . |
| 4 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 5 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 6 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 7 | Unless she is very lucky , she will be the one who will be expected to provide the stimulation , for her elderly parent may have been alone since breakfast-time , and will be waiting to be ‘ cheered up ’ by stories of all she has been doing during the day . |
| 8 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 9 | She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch . |
| 10 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 11 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 12 | She apologised , over the phone , the next day ; she 'd been hiding under the bedclothes , playing her favourite David Bowie cassette at maximum volume on her Sony Walkman , trying to drown the noise of the thunder . |
| 13 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Well okay , that was a time she 'd been camping in the Lake District , Mrs did . |
| 16 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 17 | She 'd been driving along the A420 Oxford to Swindon road at Pusey woods , when she was hit head-on by a stolen Vauxhall Cavalier . |
| 18 | She 'd been sitting on the edge of the bed when they 'd arrived , two large uniformed men . |
| 19 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 20 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 21 | She sang as well as she could , hitting the right notes — she never had any problem with that — but it was pretty dreadful singing , so lifeless and uninspired , not the way she had been singing during the weeks before Gesner 's arrival . |
| 22 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 23 | Constance had lost Ludo — something she had been dreading on the journey up from Florence — but she was not alarmed . |
| 24 | She had been thinking of the three men downstairs , though perhaps one could hardly count John as being in the running . |
| 25 | ‘ Present from Alan behind the bar , ’ said Sarah , drawing out the glass she had been holding behind the frilly apron the waitresses at the Right and Wrong had to wear . |
| 26 | Robyn took a sip and wished she had been listening from the beginning . |
| 27 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 28 | She had been living with the Wilsons for nearly three months . |
| 29 | She had been suffering from the disease for a year . |
| 30 | She had been working at the Hopeland missionary camp , helping educate teenage boys . |