Example sentences of "she be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old woman , by my faith , you must go away while I and she are to play . " |
| 2 | You have to believe that if you and she are going to go on living together . ’ |
| 3 | Had n't she been watching the models for weeks and dying for a chance to imitate them ? |
| 4 | What had she been watching for ? |
| 5 | Had she been damaged or sunk , another mass of nuclear material could have been released . |
| 6 | Bryony , on occasions like this , was always self-righteous : the problem and answers were obvious , why had n't she been consulted ? |
| 7 | Oh what 's she been chewing ? |
| 8 | Precisely who it was she was using for a role model became clear as a middle-aged lady , admirably slim in well-cut jodhpurs , erupted from some inner fortress to enquire , in tones that carried effortlessly across the yard , precisely why Caroline had failed to run up her stirrups , how long had she been riding ? |
| 9 | And has she been cleared o |
| 10 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 11 | Had she been mistaken earlier ? |
| 12 | Had she been mistaken ? |
| 13 | ‘ Had she been seeing anybody ? ’ |
| 14 | Had n't she been lost seven years ago , in the misty dawns and the drowsy afternoons ? |
| 15 | Had n't she been lost to him before even he had seen her . |
| 16 | Had she been asked to account for her day Elisabeth Danziger would have been unable to do so . |
| 17 | Yet had she been asked what that destination was she would have been hard put to it to answer . |
| 18 | Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs . |
| 19 | Had she been asked that minute what her exact feelings were , she might have said , I have done what I can for Andrée , if she 's going to blow cold again , if she does n't want to see me any more , vogue la galère , I shall have to survive , I shall . |
| 20 | Had she been asked , Britain would have said that she thought " dissolution " was much further off than it was in the mind of the tsar . |
| 21 | One hundred year ago Prof Peabody might well have been equally indignant had she been called a scientist , and would have said ( as did Faraday and Kelvin ) ‘ I prefer to be called a natural philosopher ’ . |
| 22 | Has she been to see you ? |
| 23 | Nor had she ever come home footsore , as she surely must had she been quartering the city in the fashion she claimed . |
| 24 | Has she been bleeding for a two week period ? |
| 25 | Has she been struck down by heaven , do you think ? ’ |
| 26 | Has she been chucked out by her parents this time ? her boyfriend |
| 27 | The birthday party was of a kind which Cecilia would have wondered at , had she been invited to it , for although a few of Bienvida 's classmates were present in its early stages , by seven it had become a celebration for the grown-ups . |
| 28 | Why , having found herself remarkably unmoved by her succession of boyfriends to date , even Jeremy 's cunning ploys and reasoned arguments , and having reached the not inconsiderable age of twenty-four , had she been consumed with that burning hunger last night ? |
| 29 | Had she been expecting Naylor to be stuck for words or , now that the moment of carrying out the plan he had put to her had arrived , ducking it , then she was disappointed on both counts . |
| 30 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |