Example sentences of "be [verb] she [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 2 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 3 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 4 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 5 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're putting her in a cage so that people can see her . |
| 7 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 8 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 9 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 10 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 11 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 12 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 13 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 14 | Something tells me I wo n't be seeing her for a while either . |
| 15 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 16 | To get out of the car to peer beneath its bonnet was not going to get her anywhere either , she knew in advance , because with her lack of mechanical knowledge the fault could be staring her in the face and she would never recognise it . |
| 17 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Six months ago , we never thought she would ever achieve her ambition but , fingers crossed , I 'll soon be taking her to the school gates and she can sit in class with the other youngsters , just like she always wanted . ’ |
| 19 | He seemed to be watching her like a hawk , waiting for some reaction . |
| 20 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 21 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 22 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
| 23 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 24 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 25 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 26 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 27 | She had guessed Robert and others were manipulating her as a chess piece in a game whose rules and ultimate aim were a mystery . |
| 28 | The blue eyes were studying her with an intentness she found exceedingly disconcerting . |
| 29 | All these people were smacking her on the back , and touching her and congratulating her , and expressing surprise and delight . |
| 30 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |