Example sentences of "that she be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has often darkly alluded to some form of abuse in her own formative years , and there 's a strong sense that she 's singing these songs to someone in particular . |
| 2 | And Jean 's started to move the furniture around … a sign that she 's getting itchy feet : |
| 3 | Usually they are quite capable of doing this for themselves , but if your elderly parent turns to you for advice on financial matters your main aims should be : I. To make sure that she is receiving all the State benefits and pensions to which she may be entitled . |
| 4 | Suppose a girl under 16 does not wish her parents to know that she is seeking contraceptive advice : the medical profession is divided between those who give priority to partial consent , and others who , in line with the General Medical Council , hold that the principle of professional confidentiality overrides that of parental consent . |
| 5 | ‘ The lady prefers not to have us reveal any details , only to say that she is doing this out of love for her late husband , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 7 | The authority said : ‘ Dr Starkie has agreed that it should be made known publically at this juncture that she is suffering progressive neurological disease multiple sclerosis . |
| 8 | Blanche realises that she is becoming old and seeks someone who can offer her stability . |
| 9 | Yeah , I know , I did n't think she se , she did n't realise that you know that she was seeing this |
| 10 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 11 | After all that , she 'd been just ‘ Madam ’ for a while , which might have indicated that she was getting older or grander , except that she always looked just the same , never any older . |
| 12 | Was it that she was getting old and past bothering with children ? |
| 13 | Indeed , his position as Town 's theatre critic meant that she was getting some evenings out free as well . |
| 14 | Then , realising that she was getting wet , she grabbed the pail and slammed the door shut again on the incessant rain . |
| 15 | She was impressed by how elegant she looked , and could tell by her cousin 's walk that Nora also felt that she was looking good . |
| 16 | Molly removed the smile from her face , now afraid that she was looking contented . |
| 17 | At tea-ti me the next day he picked up Catherine at her flat , noticing that she was looking rested and pretty even if he was feeling jaded and disaffected . |
| 18 | You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's |
| 19 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 20 | He looked at her and she felt the colour rising in her cheeks at the knowledge that she was breaking one of the first rules of medicine , which was never to make promises you could n't possibly guarantee to keep . |
| 21 | It was noticeable , among other things , that she was drinking faster than anybody else . |
| 22 | As she gradually changed her beliefs , Cathy found that she was meeting different kinds of men . |
| 23 | It sometimes felt that she was blushing all the time . |
| 24 | She was more than a little astounded , however , that , as Naylor stood facing her in the hall of her home , she should suddenly feel breathless and find that she was extending that courtesy even further . |
| 25 | Not that she was sleeping all that well . |
| 26 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 27 | Ellen 's voice was suddenly a harsh scream , so harsh that we both looked towards her and saw that she was threatening both of us with one of Wavebreaker 's heavy-duty fire extinguishers that she had snatched from its rack at the head of the main companionway . |
| 28 | Is it not time that those pensioners , including the one who told me that she was keeping warm during the day by clutching a hot-water bottle because she could not afford heating bills , were given a decent state pension as of right , without the humiliation of a contributory test , which involves means-testing for those who are in greatest need ? |
| 29 | Donna had helped her onto the sofa , woken her gently but then realized that she was becoming hysterical . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't call me that , ’ she said crossly , aware that she was becoming side-tracked . |