Example sentences of "she has been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She has been wandering from post to post for six years , having left her home in , I suspect , scandalous circumstances . |
| 32 | She has been trying to stake a claim which I vow to you on my honour she has never had a right to . |
| 33 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 34 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 35 | She has been feeding intensively in the neighbourhood , building up in her body the reserves from which she will produce her eggs . |
| 36 | She has been moving well in home gallops and defends her record in the Gainsborough Stud Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 37 | She has not seen much of Montparnasse recently , she confesses to her readers , she has been staying indoors ‘ nursing a sick wasp and writing a comic romance . |
| 38 | You say hello to her , you assume she has been reading your mail or listening in to your private telephone calls ( actually I never did either ) , and you tell her when you do not wish to be disturbed . |
| 39 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 40 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away . |
| 43 | He added : ‘ She has been living off prostitution and is a heroin addict . |
| 44 | She has been living with her friend Jane Eager at Scira Court , Wylam Avenue , Darlington , since October and applied to the council as a homeless person last month . |
| 45 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 46 | Sir Stephen Brown , President of the Family Division , was hearing arguments from lawyers representing the 14-year-old girl , who can not be named , her parents and the mother of the 18-year-old boyfriend who she has been living with . |
| 47 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 48 | For years she has been complaining ‘ I never see anything of you , darling ’ and ‘ Why ca n't you spend a little more time with the family ? ’ — so naturally he expects her to be delighted to have him at home . |
| 49 | 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 . ’ |
| 50 | On the lawn , she has been crying |
| 51 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 52 | One source said : ’ She has been rewriting all the Prime Minister 's press releases . |
| 53 | A hard-working Society member , for many years a member of the National Display Team and nore recently of the Surrey and Sussex team , she has been putting the latter through their paces for ‘ In the Pink ’ , the ball item first performed at last year 's Reunion . |
| 54 | She feels stripped and humiliated , she has been performing publicly . |
| 55 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 56 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 57 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 58 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |
| 59 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 60 | She has been going to therapy since she was about two . ’ |