Example sentences of "she have be [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 2 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 3 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 4 | Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’ |
| 5 | She 'd been letting on that she lived in one of those posh houses . |
| 6 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
| 7 | Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared . |
| 8 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |
| 9 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 10 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 11 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 12 | She pulled off the scarf that she had been wearing round her head to protect her ears and prevent her hair getting into her eyes and mouth . |
| 13 | She had been calling out to him , pleading , arms outstretched , ‘ Wait for me . |
| 14 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 15 | Hour after hour , the thoughts she had been pushing back came pouring out . |
| 16 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 17 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 18 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 19 | She had been riding along a road with a little girl and Clare 's small pony Kizzy on a leading rein . |
| 20 | There , among the junk mail and bills delivered while she had been riding out first lot , was an envelope written in a careful , neat hand . |
| 21 | In fact , she had been thinking along those lines herself . |
| 22 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 23 | Surely he was n't implying that she had been trying out her feminine wiles on Sam ? |
| 24 | When Tuesday and Debbie were arguing with their Moms whether they should wear a strapless dress to the dance , she had been carving up gang-girls in warehouse arenas , then picking out some cock-for-the-night from the stud line . |
| 25 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 26 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
| 27 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 28 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 29 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 30 | She looked at the layout she had been working on . |