Example sentences of "she be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she been sleep-walking ? |
| 2 | Two of the three moved off as he arrived , with unconvincing references to waiting papers , but Bruce Davidson stood his ground , enquiring heartily how Francesca was and had she been helpful ? |
| 3 | Had she been premature ? |
| 4 | Presently there were feet on the stairs — a headlong clatter that would have frightened her had she been capable of ordinary feelings . |
| 5 | Had she been convincing ? |
| 6 | Had she been right to do so ? |
| 7 | Had she been right about Luke 's involvement with him too ? |
| 8 | Why had n't she been able to understand ? |
| 9 | It was a journey that would not have made Mrs Zamzam happy had she been able to make it herself . |
| 10 | Nor had she been able to comprehend what was going on . |
| 11 | Susan Hampshire herself was invited to become a governor , and who knows , might have accepted , had she been able to suss out what we were on about . |
| 12 | I think that 's what Eve would have been telling you had she been able to give you a ring … . ’ |
| 13 | Had she been able to , Selina might even have tried to prevent that small detail from slipping out . |
| 14 | This account is now generally accepted , although some historians still suggest that Elizabeth herself would have preferred to have reintroduced the 1549 Prayer Book , had she been able to enlist any support for this move from her lay and clerical advisers at court . |
| 15 | Not for a moment had she been able to deceive herself that she was anything but bad , truly bad . |
| 16 | Alix could not have afforded this solution , and would have thought it cheating had she been able to afford it , although she thoroughly despised herself for these scruples . |
| 17 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 18 | He looked so thunderous that she would have run had she been able , but the chance did not arise . |
| 19 | Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ? |
| 20 | So that had she been able to take her history exam , she would have needed rather a good grade there , perhaps a better grade than her past performance suggested she would have attained . |
| 21 | How long has she been ill ? |
| 22 | The other day is she , she been sick and she been |
| 23 | Where 'd she been sick do you know ? |
| 24 | Had she been wrong in all her first impressions ? |
| 25 | Had she been wrong about that ? she now wondered . |
| 26 | Had she been wrong , after all , Lisa suddenly wondered , about that underlying lightness of mood she had sensed in him ? |
| 27 | Had she been alone she would have told him . |
| 28 | Had she been alone with Luke , no doubt his words would have been spiked with malice . |
| 29 | ‘ And how long has she been dead ? ’ |
| 30 | Not only had she been unhelpful from a business point of view , but the prospects of inveigling her into his empty bed did not seem rosy . |