Example sentences of "she be [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had n't she been watching the models for weeks and dying for a chance to imitate them ? |
| 2 | Nor had she ever come home footsore , as she surely must had she been quartering the city in the fashion she claimed . |
| 3 | Jacob was still not the daughter she had set her heart on , but even though he was a male child he was , at least , physically recognisable as her offspring , and as he grew up he displayed artistic tendencies of a kind which she was sure could have flowered in her had she been given the chance . |
| 4 | And , in spite of the fact that she now knew a great deal more about the missing man , she still had no answer to the essential question : had she been examining the life of a victim of violent crime , or that of a murderer ? |
| 5 | But I discerned that she was a pretty child , one who would have grown into a beauty had she been allowed the opportunity to age . |
| 6 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 7 | One sensed the aloneness , and would she be roaming the desert if there were a husband to worry about ? |
| 8 | If she were to open the door perhaps the blackness would be out there now , ready to swallow her , as it had almost done on that previous occasion ; or would she wander endlessly in a limbo of greyness , forever trapped between Johnny 's time and her own ? |
| 9 | If , in Lady Chatterley 's Lover , the scales were to fall from Connie 's eyes and she were to see the worship of Mellor 's phallus for what it is , a means of subordinating and oppressing women , she could free herself and develop her authentic will , ego and individuality . |
| 10 | He wondered if she were telling the truth and decided that it hardly mattered . |
| 11 | It was an innocuous question , so why did she suddenly feel as if she were facing the Inquisition ? |
| 12 | And what if she were to leave the shelter of the house ? |
| 13 | [ The minority ] believes that no good would come to children , husband or wife if she were given the protection of the criminal law . |
| 14 | As the Rallye droned towards the lighthouse on the tip of Cap Camerat , Miranda felt as if she were breathing the air of the gods . |
| 15 | Secure on her own ground ( she 's locked the door from the inside and pocketed the key ) , Anya cuts the cords binding Riva 's wrists and ankles , and slips the gun back into a gangsterish shoulder-holster straight out of a B-movie props department . |
| 16 | And she 's getting the nurses up . |
| 17 | And she 's getting the nurses up . |
| 18 | I mean basically , I mean I do n't know where she 's getting the money from , the wife , but she 's putting savings away every year for about two to three grand . |
| 19 | She says she ca n't understand why she 's getting the treatment she 's getting from her . |
| 20 | Cos I mean , he 's starting to make a beeline for Carol now and she 's getting the creeps about it . |
| 21 | She 's getting the boot . |
| 22 | She 's calling the girl 's mum a prostitute . |
| 23 | Mrs Peel , however , saw things differently , saying of the head , ‘ She seemed to be assessing me rather than John … it 's like she 's shifting the blame on to me … she used to speak to me like I was a really bad mother . |
| 24 | Rosemary Shergold is waging a constant battle against the tobacco companies , and she 's enlisted the help of Oxford East MP Andrew Smith . |
| 25 | ‘ To make sure she 's accepted the pension — and the conditions . |
| 26 | Cavell says you 've been invited to the awards ceremony , and she 's asked the organisers to seat us together . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's phoning the AA , ’ said the peroxide blonde . |
| 28 | And she says , tell you , she 's counting the calories for that bit of cake ! |
| 29 | Half an hour later she 's unloading the car outside the studio — that 's her job too . |
| 30 | She 's silent for a while , then says , ‘ The other day ’ — she 's soaping the front of my legs now , from behind — ‘ when you had to sit through Eldorado in that really uncomfortable position ; you enjoyed that , did n't you ? ’ |