Example sentences of "she [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
| 2 | She has been teaching in North Kensington . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She has been wandering from post to post for six years , having left her home in , I suspect , scandalous circumstances . |
| 8 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ She has been living off prostitution and is a heroin addict . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 15 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 16 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 17 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 18 | She has been going to therapy since she was about two . ’ |
| 19 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 20 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 21 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 22 | But last night a source close to Jagger said : ‘ All that stuff she has been saying about hardly knowing him is rubbish . |
| 23 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
| 24 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 25 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the 19 years she has been working for Durham County Council 's social services the number of rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired has dropped to one . |
| 28 | She has been working as a nurse practitioner on a general surgical firm at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust since August . |
| 29 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
| 30 | ‘ She has been falling at my feet since she was a child . ’ |