Example sentences of "be [conj] she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So deep in thought had she been that she reached her destination before she 'd made any definite plans about how to proceed . |
| 2 | And if Madame stayed close to him , it can hardly have been because she thought he needed looking after . |
| 3 | In a rape case the typical defence argument is that the woman consented to intercourse , while in sex murder the defence may be that she provoked him . |
| 4 | Walking to the door , Sabine wondered detachedly what the reaction would be if she voiced her unspoken thought aloud , but decided not to risk it . |
| 5 | Would this be because she had something to hide , he wondered , or was she inhibited by her clerical top brass . |
| 6 | Juliet wondered what Irene 's reaction would be when she told her she had Lilian 's address . |
| 7 | And how glad he would be when she told him . |
| 8 | Mrs Frizzell 's lips tightened as she guessed what Olga Stych 's remarks would be when she saw them . |
| 9 | ‘ No , but she will be when she finishes her work . |
| 10 | She had never known what love and tenderness were until she met her Aunty Lizzie , and she knew that no one in the world would ever love her like that woman did ; nor would she love anyone else . |
| 11 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
| 12 | Erm , she asked if we were very keen to involve the school , I said yes we were cos she said nobody really taken a great interest in the Royal Quays not |
| 13 | ‘ Once she tells us where the book is or she leads us to it , she dies . ’ |
| 14 | Rose of Lima herself did not write her memoirs , or anything else , so her subjective understanding of this painful phenomenon is not really known ; what is known is that she offered her life explicitly for the conversion and salvation of those suffering people — one of the reasons , obviously , why she later seemed an appropriate patron for the New World . |
| 15 | It can also mean " unrestrained " in the sense either of freedom to act or prodigality in giving : what Wilekin wants is that she give herself . |
| 16 | ‘ The truth is that she envies me , ’ she went on more calmly . |
| 17 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 18 | What you do n't know is that she saved my life during the war . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The alternative , of course , is that she did it . |
| 20 | is , is if she tries she can make it quiet in there |
| 21 | ‘ The only way a girl like you gets on in this world is if she has something worth selling . |
| 22 | Oh I know she is cos she told me you do n't feed her properly . |
| 23 | I 'll say it is I 'll say it is but she says she has a trapped nerve in the top of her leg , she says sometimes it 's not so bad but she said it 's not bad , you know when I get up she says I 'm in a lot of pain and it , you have to take painkillers for it |
| 24 | If she 's here , if she found me , it 's because she followed me ! |
| 25 | ‘ That 's because she made you . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's because she wanted us to shag her . ’ |
| 28 | If she followed me , it 's because she does n't trust me , and if she does n't trust me it 's because she knows something , or has found out something . |
| 29 | Her cutaway T-shirt was even more cutaway than it had been when she bought it . |
| 30 | At least , he had been when she married him . |