Example sentences of "she [be] often " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Like I say , she 's sleeping well now , and she 's often up before I even wake up .
2 She 's often away , she wants me to go and live in it .
3 When she does n't know who the culprit is , she makes a guess at it , and the trouble is she 's often right .
4 She 's often likened to Cookson , and deservedly so .
5 She was the first British prime Minister to mount a sustained challenge to post-war consensus politics and , more than any other post-war Prime Minister , she is often regarded as a figure apart from her Cabinet .
6 Such products are known by the general term ultramarinos , ‘ from across the ocean ’ , and to emphasise that Mariana herself is also an ultramarina , she is often accompanied in Gironella 's tableaux by tins of sardines .
7 The wife is the means through which a man transmits his lineage to his son ; she is often compared to a field in which her husband sows his seed for the continuation of his lineage .
8 She is often segregated in a hut outside the house .
9 The clinical teacher must also be involved in planning timetables , since she is often required to teach in the classroom .
10 As ‘ number-one woman ’ in your husband 's life you are in a strong position , and can afford to be very generous to her , especially in the all important matter of making sure that she is often able to spend time quite alone with her son .
11 In art , she is often depicted with a cat 's head while carrying a shield and rattle , to frighten away thunder-storms , and a basket to carry grain .
12 Sometimes this person is slow in coming forward but she is often quite right , these jumpers do sell in the end .
13 She is often shown with doves perching on her ; sometimes birds are shown perched on sacral horns or on a double-axe , as if to suggest the invisible presence of the goddess .
14 Orders which allow a wife to remain in occupation of the marital home until her youngest child leaves , in effect , put off her housing problems until middle age , when she is often without an income or sufficient capital to make continued owner-occupation a realistic alternative .
15 In most universities , he or she is often called the vice-chancellor — the title " chancellor " being reserved for another notable figure who fills that largely ceremonial and dignified office .
16 She is often difficult .
17 She is often represented as ‘ Our Lady of Tears ’ and shown weeping .
18 She is often able to trace such complaints as severe , almost suicidal , depression , headaches and defective , blurred vision , to misalignment of the upper cervical vertebrae , which in turn places constant pressure on major nerve centres .
19 She is often seen as the ‘ unofficial interpreter ’ of life in South Africa .
20 She is often criticized for exercising a weaker voice than she ‘ should ’ but replies that those critics who live ‘ safe from midnight arrests and solitary confinement ’ are unreasonable in the extreme in calling for those in oppressed lands to take risks the critics themselves would avoid .
21 She is often on a diet and , like young Henry , has a passion for McDonalds hamburgers .
22 She is often a woman with five or six children , who would not , on account of her large family , be an acceptable sub-tenant .
23 She is often rejected by the Catholics , because she will not conform to their religion : the local priest says that she will immediately burn in Hell , when she dies .
24 She was often offered lifts , but when she said , thank you , but she was going for a walk , a pitying expression spread over the faces of the drivers .
25 She was often ill , and Hubert spared no effort to make her well again .
26 Of course , she was often questioned , but had no intention of intruding on privacy — a commodity which she herself prized so highly , and which she knew was difficult to attain .
27 She had just done a course in assertiveness and when she was unkind ( which she was often ) she would say , ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ’ , and then ‘ No , actually I 'm not sorry ! ’
28 At first , her face burned and she was often defeated in her purpose but within a few weeks she was indistinguishable from the seasoned bargainers .
29 Both of them were quite happy to push her out in her pram and she was often the centre of attention when their friends visited .
30 With her hooded eyes loaded with mascara she was often likened to Myrna Loy and was eventually given a film test , a frequent occurrence for beauties in the 1920s .
  Next page