Example sentences of "she be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had n't she been lost seven years ago , in the misty dawns and the drowsy afternoons ? |
| 2 | Had she been asked that minute what her exact feelings were , she might have said , I have done what I can for Andrée , if she 's going to blow cold again , if she does n't want to see me any more , vogue la galère , I shall have to survive , I shall . |
| 3 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 4 | HAD SHE been born 10 years ago , baby Jessica Kelly would by now have spent most of her life in hospital . |
| 5 | Not by any stretch of the imagination could she be called beautiful and it was doubtful if she ever had been , but she was undeniably attractive . |
| 6 | Will she be splashing that arctic fox she wore |
| 7 | Should n't she be asking that question ? |
| 8 | Julia , delighted to see that the affection between them was solid enough to allow such teasing , said , as though she were considering some knotty legal problem : |
| 9 | I still remember my headmaster 's damning indictment : ‘ Jeannette could be a Cambridge scholar if she were to stop this nonsense of falling in love . ’ |
| 10 | She does n't , she did n't mind taping or owt , she were pretending that |
| 11 | ‘ She were born that way . |
| 12 | She felt again that same deep chill , that same sense of horror she had always felt when in the presence of such venom , as if she were discovering that evil really did exist , that liberal attitudes were vaporous , that filth could find its way into the universe and be embodied and spread relentlessly , terrifying those it infected . |
| 13 | She felt as if she were lying naked on a hot rock , stretching languorously towards the sun . |
| 14 | Yeah , I thought she were saying damn , so maybe she were saying down . |
| 15 | and she 'd fell in it and she were having right fits . |
| 16 | ‘ She were taken bad afore Christmas and she 's slow to mend . |
| 17 | She were doing all this that and i the audience was screaming were n't they ? |
| 18 | You 'd think they would n't want to be seen in public ; but no , there they are , living it up , and my own daughter aiding and abetting them as if she were doing some thing clever . |
| 19 | ‘ Think what would happen if she were to become doubtful about her collection . |
| 20 | When Molly joined him he would ask hopefully if she were feeling tired or , even perhaps more hopefully , as though it relieved him of all responsibility , if she had the curse . |
| 21 | A woman in her mid-fifties emerged from it and , despite the fact that hazel eyes smiled at her , Lucy thought she looked rather pale , almost as if she were feeling unwell . |
| 22 | when Ah were finally allowed ti goa back hoam — usually when she were feeling hungry — t'naybors 'd phoned police . |
| 23 | Well I knew where she were heading that night that day she came to our house . |
| 24 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 25 | She would need all her wits if she were to stand any chance of getting away from him . |
| 26 | Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference . |
| 27 | Well today 's healthy lifestyle volunteer believes she 's beaten this weighty problem . |
| 28 | It would worry me if I was having to feed her all the time but knowing that three days out of seven she 's getting good meals , it does n't worry me so much . |
| 29 | She 's getting better at speech now , and hold a conversation , but she does n't understand some things . |
| 30 | Erm she 's getting better . |