Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 2 | Craig 's greatest impact on Jo has been teasing her into taking work less seriously . |
| 3 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 4 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 5 | Leaving Alexandra at her door , unkissed , untouched , was one of the hardest things he had ever done , especially when what he had really wanted to do was to carry her into her bedroom — or his — and make love to her . |
| 6 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 7 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
| 8 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I think the police should have been to see her within hours and not waited four years to see her . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course — but unfortunately overlooked , ’ he replied straight away , and as it came to her that he must have been teasing her with his earlier attitude , he was asking , ‘ Now , can I get you a glass of wine ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’ |
| 16 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 17 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |
| 18 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 19 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 20 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 21 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 22 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 23 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 24 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |
| 25 | The intention had been to brand her as a ‘ hoarder ’ as well as the ‘ milk snatcher ’ , but most of us thought this seemed an eminently sensible thing for her to have done . |
| 26 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 27 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 28 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 29 | Roman had been holding her in his arms and she had n't been fighting — no wonder Dana was furious . |
| 30 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |