Example sentences of "a [noun sg] she be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pam Ashton will take the Trans Pennine Trail , a route she is helping to establish , which stretches from Southport to Hornsea on the east coast . |
| 2 | And she was n't such a push-over she was going to melt just because she 'd fallen in love with a man with a heart of ice . |
| 3 | As she screamed in pain they stole a necklace she was wearing . |
| 4 | Mrs Morey was outside , seated on a wooden bench with Corrie on her lap and Lily beside her , both children enthralled with a story she was telling . |
| 5 | He was all soft and scummy inside , and greenish , like his eyes , and she stood up and pulled the two halves of his torn torso together like a shirt she was going to button up so she should not see the spilling of his innards . |
| 6 | Then with a splash she was plunging into the crystal-clear water , and , an instant later , bobbing unharmed to the surface . |
| 7 | I thought for a second she was smoking so I avoided her and I do n't think she noticed me. when I came out , there was Shelima 's science book in a wash-basin smouldering away . |
| 8 | For a few minutes she explained the system on which the cards were arranged , then let him try to select some for a bibliography she was compiling on nutrition in underdeveloped countries . |
| 9 | Ca n't she see what a fool she 's making of herself ? ’ |
| 10 | They did n't want one of them hanging round Eileen , who was too young yet to know what a fool she was making of herself . |
| 11 | She notes how a 2-year-old girl surrenders a toy tool box to a boy she is playing with in front of a video observation camera , with the words , ‘ Boy have it ’ ( Henriques et al . |
| 12 | In spite of her bone-weariness , all of a sudden she was facing him squarely , for she was the same height and if anything , more strongly built . |
| 13 | A job she was looking forward to enormously . |
| 14 | It was not a meeting she was looking forward to , but Celia thought she could hardly get out of it . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , when she finds out I had my favourite comedy lady in my cab and she were n't a bit funny — not one bit — well , what a shock she 's going to get ! ’ |
| 16 | Cawla was a hairdresser she was going to be getting her own chair . |
| 17 | farm , Chris his name is , Chris and Liz Elizabeth her name is , she 's having a baby she 's having a baby now , her baby 's due in er |
| 18 | Within a week she was living with a black foster parent , in the area in which she had grown up , and was able to resume contact with her sister . |
| 19 | After about a week she was tearing off big lumps of the dead chicks I was feeding her . |
| 20 | Vera Shroff , a mathematics student , found that tutoring brought back the fun of a subject she was having some teething troubles in coping with at university level . |
| 21 | ‘ … we do get a few complaints — generally from male tourists whose culture is much more restrictive than ours , and who have mistakenly assumed that when a young woman displays herself naked on a beach she is inviting their carnal attentions . |
| 22 | A woman should know what sort of a man she was starting to fall in love with . |
| 23 | I think she 's realized she 's made a mistake she was waving away . |
| 24 | That 's a poem she 's doing . |
| 25 | I did n't believe a word she was saying . |
| 26 | ‘ And not likely to find out , ’ the young man who emerged dragging a suitcase muttered , ‘ if you do n't give the poor girl a chance to finish a thing she 's saying . ’ |
| 27 | Vanessa Thomas , who lives in Brussels , has issued an appeal for information about the village for a project she is doing . |
| 28 | Blanche scrutinised the man they were interviewing , as if he were a wasp she was trying to trap . |
| 29 | She moves restlessly back and forth between living-room and kitchen , feeding the cats , picking up children 's boots , looking for a letter she was writing . |
| 30 | She had left London without seeing Newman , telling him in a letter she was staying at her sister 's place in Southwold further up the Suffolk coast . |