Example sentences of "[noun sg] she have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 2 | Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days . |
| 3 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 4 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 5 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 6 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 7 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 8 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 9 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 10 | There is a well known Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz in which a girl is sitting at her school desk querying the C-grade she 's been given for her ‘ sculpture ’ made from a coat-hanger . |
| 11 | Today Cynthia Coles got the news she 's been waiting for . |
| 12 | She guessed it would be Nicky Kai , eager to hear her singing the praises of her beloved island once more , and she might be willing to stay and share the light supper she had been planning for herself as it was Sunday , the one evening of the week on which Florian might occasionally make a concession to the fact of his breakfast show slot and retire soon after dark . |
| 13 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 14 | Close behind him followed Alain Lemarchand , looking more suspicious than intrigued , and Glyn said the very thing she had been praying for . |
| 15 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
| 16 | This time she had been sent for urgently because Nigel had taken a turn for the worse — in fact , had nearly died after his peritonitis operation . |
| 17 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 18 | Hopefully , by the time read this , Silver Salmon will be well on the way towards completion of the major engine overhaul she has been longing for ever since our return from Denmark . |