Example sentences of "she be [verb] the " 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 | Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs . |
| 3 | Nor had she ever come home footsore , as she surely must had she been quartering the city in the fashion she claimed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | One sensed the aloneness , and would she be roaming the desert if there were a husband to worry about ? |
| 9 | The claimant brought an action against the bank claiming that she be considered as automatically hired as from March 5,1986 ( the date on which the first of above male candidates had been hired ) and she be paid the relevant salary , plus interest , from that same date forward up to the actual payment . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He wondered if she were telling the truth and decided that it hardly mattered . |
| 13 | It was an innocuous question , so why did she suddenly feel as if she were facing the Inquisition ? |
| 14 | And what if she were to leave the shelter of the house ? |
| 15 | ‘ Well at least we 've got this beano thanks to her — Aunt 's been planning it for weeks , ever since she heard that this lady might be coming down here , you 'd think she were dining the Prince des Galles . ’ |
| 16 | [ The minority ] believes that no good would come to children , husband or wife if she were given the protection of the criminal law . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I decided not to go with the Parslows , ’ she announced , as though she were saying the most reasonable thing in the world , but her lips were numb with fright , Papa was such a hard man to defy . |
| 19 | Second , there are many loopholes in the legislation ; for instance , until very recently a woman could only claim equal pay if she were doing the identical work of a man and , since occupations are typically segregated by sex , it is often difficult to find such a comparable man . |
| 20 | She tried not to sound as though she were interrogating the older woman . |
| 21 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And she 's getting the nurses up . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's getting the best attention money can buy . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She 's getting the boot . |
| 27 | She says she ca n't understand why she 's getting the treatment she 's getting from her . |
| 28 | And she 's getting the nurses up . |
| 29 | Cos I mean , he 's starting to make a beeline for Carol now and she 's getting the creeps about it . |
| 30 | She 's calling the girl 's mum a prostitute . |