Example sentences of "that she be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I can tell you at the moment is that she is on the danger list . |
| 2 | Executive Director of the Tour , Joe Flanagan , says : ‘ It is not a pleasant task to tell a girl that she is off the Tour for the next four weeks , or in a few cases , a whole year . |
| 3 | She says that she is in the bath now , sir , but that she will be with you shortly . ’ |
| 4 | As Martha tried on each garment in turn , Elizabeth could see that she was on the verge of tears . |
| 5 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 6 | Joanna 's mouth opened and Sophie could see that she was on the verge of an angry retort but the situation was saved by the entry of the veterinary nurse , carrying a tray . |
| 7 | She had n't told Alice , that she was on the hook . |
| 8 | He must indeed have been utterly determined to thwart her — not to say very certain that she was on the train . |
| 9 | The anxiety that she was on the point of doing so created a mounting sense of urgency during the 1870s . |
| 10 | He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth . |
| 11 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 12 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 13 | ‘ … poor , almost illiterate … her pride was that she was of the Clanranald . |
| 14 | But there were very few people who could sympathise with her — the presumption was that she was fiercely cold-hearted , driven by greed and shallowness , a woman who had convinced herself that she was above the law . |
| 15 | She played those games — anything to keep the girls children as long as possible and not face up to the fact that she was over the hill . |
| 16 | Remorse and pain clutched at her , almost taking her breath away , and Jenna spun round and took to her heels , taking Alain by surprise so that she was through the door and down the stairs before he caught her . |
| 17 | Thereafter , she became a statutory tenant under section 2(1) ( a ) , and giving the words of that subsection their natural meaning , it would appear that she was by the Act to remain a statutory tenant so long as she continued in occupation of the dwelling-house . |
| 18 | His second was that she was from the estate agent 's . |
| 19 | As she looked down into that face on which all tears had long since dried , Louisa had the deranging sensation that she was in the presence of a dying woman . |
| 20 | This meant that she was in the clinic , she 'd had the scan , she was ovulating , her feet were up in stirrups — they needed my sample there and then . ’ |
| 21 | " She wrote that she was in the South of France , planning to hitch home . |
| 22 | Dimly , Mrs Palichuk perceived that she was in the way , and it hurt her . |
| 23 | It did n't much matter that she was in the junkroom of someone else 's home and that her position here was uncertain . |
| 24 | Waking very cold and aching , Perdita saw little red flames flickering across the great blue arch of sky and thought for a terrified second that she was in the middle of a forest fire . |
| 25 | Brenda , sure that she was in the right , held out — and was , indeed , banned . |
| 26 | Kate began to have the feeling that she was caught by forces stronger than her , that she was in the power of some strange vortex that was spinning her around so fast that she no longer knew how to keep control . |
| 27 | He remembered , from the one or two he 'd gone to with her , that she was in the habit of pocketing things and crunching large handfuls of crisps . |
| 28 | A lady traveller on the Exeter express told John Ruskin that she was in the carriage from which Turner put his head out in a rainstorm to record the scene mentally , and she saw the picture at the Royal Academy the next year , in 1844 . |
| 29 | Only at Wrexham were painful thoughts quite unexpectedly revived : Coleridge caught sight of Mary Evans , and discovered that she was in the town visiting her grandmother . |
| 30 | Their mother seemed to rally as she always did for her children but no matter how she tried to conceal it , it was clear to all of them that she was near the end of her strength . |