Example sentences of "be [adv] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 2 | LEFT Dawn eating a chick , which when she was in training would be all she had to eat all day . |
| 3 | I 'm all she 's got now . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm all she has , Shelley . |
| 5 | You can play in the garden while I 'm away she said . |
| 6 | That was what had caused it , of course , of that she was convinced , or would be once she 'd had time to work on it ! |
| 7 | your mum 'll be here she says |
| 8 | ‘ Patrizia Valesio has been here she claims that … ’ |
| 9 | If daughters Beatrice , four , and two-year-old Eugenie are there she does not go topless . |
| 10 | And when they were inside she said in a different voice , ‘ What is going on between you and that girl ? ’ |
| 11 | I got back from Colchester the day we were so she said , looked at it , is a ten pounds or a hundred pounds . |
| 12 | He vehemently dislikes smoking and while they were together she stopped smoking and cut down on drinking . |
| 13 | After the death of her husband in the war , she might well have doted on her daughter , as being all she had left . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't yer 'ave nuthin' ter do with that brazen 'uzzy ! ’ she warned me , and when we were indoors she rounded on me . |
| 15 | In the afternoons she sat in the lounge , sometimes on her own , sometimes with the others ; but if the others were there she did not look at them , only at the television screen . |
| 16 | you know this is so she says oh I 'll probably see ya , er one night she was er cutting all the up for the rest of the week like , she said do you want a bet on the the big race this Saturday ? |
| 17 | Yeah well if that 's so she 's got ta alter all her books . |
| 18 | There 's just her battling against it ! |
| 19 | I mean but I mean I suppose it 's true with with Sonia and with Honey cos I mean like Honey 's a nice person , but there 's three things about her which are very bad , and that is like she takes the piss erm she 's lazy . |
| 20 | mum goes , do n't you swear at her no swearing thank you , and it 's like she hates swearing , it 's like , not even swearing cows and animals |
| 21 | But like erm my mum was saying , you know she 's like she 's got a , definitely got a good job and like , the kids really sort of |
| 22 | It 's like she 's got some big thing going like , got some big drugs thing going , like , and she 's trying to hide ! |
| 23 | Yeah , she said the other , er yesterday , er I do n't know what it 's like she has n't told me yet , oh er me mum 's bought one , oh aye , me mum 's is very nice I 've seen that , I know me dad 's had one as well . |
| 24 | If tables could talk , I imagine this one would have a few tales to tell for it is here she has enjoyed repasts with such gossipy Sloanes as Carolyn Bartholomew , Kate Menzies and Millie Dunne . |
| 25 | So stupid she 's there she 's there she says yes talk to me . |
| 26 | He wo n't be er , but she was so she said you 're gon na chop the tree down , that tree whe , that he bumped into ! |
| 27 | When I asked why this was so she explained that since her husband died she had been managing well and felt that she had coped with all the trauma . |
| 28 | He was all she saw now . |
| 29 | Her daughter 's safety was all she cared about . |
| 30 | He really did believe that money was all she cared about ! |