Example sentences of "she [verb] be [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ She has been taking medication but we do n't know yet whether that had anything to do with it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 5 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd been playing tennis , and was swinging her racquet as she walked . |
| 7 | Anne felt a rush of affection for the wise old lady whom she felt was offering comfort and advice to her . |
| 8 | It looked at first as if she had been drinking blood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 11 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 12 | A Lebanese chauffeur who denies Kim 's manslaughter has told the court that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 13 | She had been amassing clothing coupons for the last six months and was determined that Constance would have a magnificent dress from one of the London stores . |
| 14 | She had been undergoing treatment for over six months now . |
| 15 | She had been spitting blood after a bad bout of coughing , but one look at the sputum told me it was clean blood . |
| 16 | She sat up and rubbed her eyes , colouring furiously as she realised she had been using Roman 's shoulder for a head-rest . |
| 17 | Jobless Mohammed Aylaus , of Surbiton , Surrey , nabbed after The People handed evidence to police , threatened to shoot a prostitute and her children when he discovered she had been witholding money from him , Reading Crown Court was told . |
| 18 | All morning she had been watching low-slung , sharp-nosed cars complete several circuits , then draw into the pits to be set upon by swarms of mechanics and subjected to intensive fine-tuning . |
| 19 | She had been watching television , another of those comedies where the audience laughs immoderately at thin jokes . |
| 20 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 21 | She had been cooking rice for supper . |
| 22 | She explained that she had been eating mote cheese and drinking an extra pint of milk a day to make sure she got enough protein during pregnancy and breast-feeding . |
| 23 | The company with whom she had been playing tennis and swimming and was now sitting , were an old friend she had known since Pony Club days , and her newly acquired husband , and David Fairfax , Junior , son of the house , spectacled and earnest and studying to be a chartered accountant . |
| 24 | Nurse though she was , and even though she had been giving blood fairly regularly for several years now , Belinda never liked to watch the bag fill , so she managed to hold a magazine in her left hand . |
| 25 | And when she returned he would imagine that he could see the glow of the skin , the satisfied smile of remembered happiness , could almost smell that she had been making love . |
| 26 | There , on the deep-piled carpet of the elegant apartment on rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré , she had been making love to a man incarcerated in the slums of Beirut . |
| 27 | She had been studying architecture in Paris when he first met her in 1958 . |
| 28 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |
| 29 | She had thought she had been keeping watch on the creeping grey-streaked matter , but it had moved suddenly , the embryonic fingers clutching the ground , pulling the oozing , mucousy river forward until it was bubbling over her feet . |
| 30 | That was a request from Charlotte , she 's been demanding chocolate biscuits . |