Example sentences of "[verb] she be the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say she 's the youngest prima ballerina ever to dance at the Coliseum . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If the Prince of Wales does not succeed she 's the one person people would feel would be acceptable . |
| 3 | Anne Cullen has spent nearly half of her twenty two years of married life pregnant … and says she 's the happiest mum in the world . |
| 4 | He assumed she was the younger daughter of the couple who lived on the second floor , until she spoke . |
| 5 | Do I think she 's the central bank or what ? |
| 6 | Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence : She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants . |
| 7 | She insists she is the established challenger to Mr Forsyth 's crown and argues that he has not appeared particularly sure-footed during the campaign . |
| 8 | ‘ You know , you ca n't believe she 's the same child that was so polite a couple of years ago . |
| 9 | My top objective is to get on board because I believe she is the best person for the job . |
| 10 | She seemed very nice and I thought she could act and we had a nice rapport , but I said to Sam , ‘ I just feel she 's the wrong type for a guy who 's a teacher in college . |
| 11 | Then , she dreamed she was the Great Crocodile in the Moon . |
| 12 | Before Eva had time to do a mental check list of any way that she or the students at the ICO might have offended , General Wiseman informed her that he felt she was the right person to take over leadership of the women 's social services . |
| 13 | ‘ They 'd need one nostril up the fox 's arse today , ’ Nora heard a farmer say to the whipper-in , not knowing she was the other side of the hedge . |
| 14 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |
| 15 | I thought she was the cleaning woman first of all . ’ |
| 16 | First , they proved she was the biological child of the Twiggs . |
| 17 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 18 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |