Example sentences of "she be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , having found herself remarkably unmoved by her succession of boyfriends to date , even Jeremy 's cunning ploys and reasoned arguments , and having reached the not inconsiderable age of twenty-four , had she been consumed with that burning hunger last night ? |
| 2 | Her future would be devoted to her husband and children and no more would she be tempted into any indiscretions , she vowed . |
| 3 | The last time I saw her she looked yellow and thin — as if she were made of some dry , friable material and would crumple into sand if you touched her . |
| 4 | There were times when Rose felt as if she were split in half — an interesting rather than a painful experience . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's gotten over all that . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's volunteered for nursing duties . |
| 7 | While equally the white lesbian sister has got to understand that while she 's unified with this Asian lesbian sister there are differences , there are differences some of which are good and some of which are bad , and we have to be frank about them and to struggle around them because we ca n't just pretend that they do n't exist , then we 're not going to reach anywhere . |
| 8 | But how about Audrey , the ‘ silly woman , a bit over the hill ’ she 's played since 1979 ? |
| 9 | It 's a fate she 's accepted with surprising equanimity . |
| 10 | She says the nearest thing she 's done to this was working in a scouts ' gang show . |
| 11 | She looks as if she 's made of man-made fibres you see . |
| 12 | If she 's suffered at all then it will be over now . |
| 13 | After that she was put away until they closed the asylums , since when she 's lived in that place . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a wicked shame that the poor old thing has got to leave the cottage she 's lived in most of her life , ’ continued Mrs. Grant . |
| 15 | She 's dressed in this furry pink thing , and she 's got these little white shoes on . |
| 16 | But she ca n't because she 's diabetic , and she 's adapted to that with huge success . |
| 17 | But she 's secretly ambivalent about her friends and an open breach looms when she 's drawn to charismatic outsider J.D. who seduces her into an apparently humorous plan of attack . |
| 18 | She 's far from home , you see , she 's strayed into tropical waters . |
| 19 | She 's settled for some biscuits and cheese and a yoghurt and a glass of orange juice . ’ |
| 20 | Even if she 's afflicted with those dark curly sprouts which creep up from the bikini line , ultimately shrouding the bellybutton in a rich hirsute outcrop , she could n't give a fried calamari . |
| 21 | Is it because she 's thought of last year 's holidays ? |
| 22 | But since then , she 's leapt to all the wrong conclusions . |
| 23 | But it 's not a simple process , the ewes can reject the lambs , so she 's held in this restraint while the lamb is introduced , giving it a chance to suckle and allowing the mother to get used to it . |
| 24 | She 's described as five foot three , with blonde permed hair , slim build and green eyes . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's sleepin' well an' she 's put on two pounds . ’ |
| 26 | He begins to shake , she 's rocked from one side to the other as she feels the tail thrash at the sea and Manjiku rear and toss . |
| 27 | When a young female black-backed jackal first comes into heat she is followed by several young males , one of which she selects as her long-term partner . |
| 28 | These not only cause a change in self-concept — the way a woman sees herself — but , more important , a change in the way she is perceived by other people . |
| 29 | But Lesley Beattie , owner of the York-based Friends Estate Agency , yesterday denied that she is biased against male employees . |
| 30 | She is supported in this by her husband . |