Example sentences of "be [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the more I look at her the more convinced I am that she resembles one of the Yorkies . |
| 2 | So deep in thought had she been that she reached her destination before she 'd made any definite plans about how to proceed . |
| 3 | One of the reasons why Constanze did not really come into her own until after Mozart 's death may well have been that she spent much of her married life in various debilitating stages of pregnancy , bearing six children ( of whom only two survived ) . |
| 4 | So single-minded had she been that she 'd forgotten the presence of Mike and this man . |
| 5 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 6 | Or , perhaps , it may have been that she had married him . |
| 7 | According to her foster brother , another clue had been that she had so blatantly considered Vitor to be ‘ a real cool dude ’ , but she saw no reason to reveal that . |
| 8 | The announcement on the morning of 22 November of Mrs Thatcher 's decision to resign came as a dramatic surprise to the public because , up to that point , all the outward signs had been that she intended to stick to her initial resolve to contest the second ballot . |
| 9 | Her death was a tragedy , but who knows what kind of disaster that marriage would have been if she 'd lived ? |
| 10 | Maybe H R T was helping what her symptoms would have been if she had n't taken them , maybe they were worse because she was , maybe they were the same in spite of it , but I du n no . |
| 11 | She would not realize how spectacular her deception had been until she had seen , as he had , the frenzied rage on Simon 's face , or heard , as he had , the pleasure and excitement in Simon 's face as he threatened violence . |
| 12 | The years had been reasonably kind to Katherine Lundy — or at least had been until she had begun drinking heavily . |
| 13 | She had not realised how tense she had been until she jumped . |
| 14 | said down the corridor he walked in his full uniform , the first morning say and that memory son will always stick ya , cos when I give her over that picture of the twins at Christmas , she , she looked up , she sort of looked up at me , she said I 've got tears in my eyes have n't I , and I looked and like I was choked as well and I , she sort of , I said yeah you are and she said , every time I look at them it brings back those memories the first memories of this little boy |
| 15 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 16 | And if Madame stayed close to him , it can hardly have been because she thought he needed looking after . |
| 17 | Raging at Felipe had just been because she 'd been shocked and scared for him when she 'd seen him take off into the air . |
| 18 | When Caroline had signed a year 's contract with International Models , it had been because she 'd wanted to learn everything she could about the fashion business . |
| 19 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 20 | With stress on ‘ comes ’ , could it be that she gets a lift back ? |
| 21 | Perhaps she was not feeling well , or it could be that she resented Lissa 's intrusion into the office . |
| 22 | He had watched until the night nurse had left the office and now he was as sure as he could be that she had gone below for a meal . |
| 23 | Could it be that she had retraced her steps , worked out that the house was Littlecote and the perpetrator of this heinous crime was Darrel ? |
| 24 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 25 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 26 | Could n't it be that she had needed to loathe him so that she could smother the awakening of her real feelings for him ? |
| 27 | She was as sure as she could be that she had n't been followed , but she knew she would n't breathe freely again until she was airborne . |
| 28 | It may be that she commissioned the piece under the influence of the Norman history written for her brother Duke Richard II by Dudo of St Quentin , while some have thought it political propaganda intended to influence events after Cnut 's death . |
| 29 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 30 | 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 . |