Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] she [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , now that she was no longer there , he would have to pay attention ; would know that she had been serious . |
| 2 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 3 | Mrs Hawkins reported that she had been unable to take photos at this location as she had first to finish off a slide film , but will soon be in a position to take the required photos and also others to be displayed at the A.G.M. and then stored in the village archives . |
| 4 | Yeah , she thinks that she 's been big already |
| 5 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 6 | The girl gave a tight grin , amused that she 'd been right . |
| 7 | She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent . |
| 8 | Such remarks , along with the usual party-political imperatives , mean that she has been subject to reflex ridicule for being out of step . |
| 9 | Well the only thing I 've heard that she did was this , sounds stupid , Slippery Elm stick . |
| 10 | Davies added that she had been present at a phone conversation in December when Doyle had assured one of the players that all $300,000 of the prizemoney was ‘ in the bank . ’ |
| 11 | They drove back to Slane , completely in charity — Ellie pleased that she had been able to help , Mrs McMahon delighted that she would n't , after all , look a fright . |
| 12 | For the first time she began to wonder if she 'd been foolhardy — no matter how strong her desire to get away , she should n't have put her own safety at risk . |
| 13 | Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down . |
| 14 | The rockdust prevented her from seeing if she had been successful in her kill . |
| 15 | There was nothing in the cast of her features to suggest that she had been alarmed or frightened at the moment of her death . |
| 16 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 17 | Two hours later , as they sat watching an Irish comedian telling jokes that she herself considered quite unsuitable for family viewing , jokes that she hoped were incomprehensible to Celia and her grandparents , the telephone rang : it was her mother , to report that Liz had not telephoned . |
| 18 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 19 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 20 | She gathers that she has been lucky on her journey to avoid the widespread banditry , carried out more often than not by deserters from the army . |
| 21 | He had kept out of her way while she 'd been interviewing but she had been aware of where he was all the time . |
| 22 | She did The Old Man and the Seal with ease , acting old , acting a big man and swimming the breast-stroke in the air , and they got it almost immediately and then she flopped on to Conrad 's knee and he laid his wine-filled head on her breast and somebody wiped a smear of black kohl from her cheek and she felt like a child again and thought of how Gabriel had nursed his little girl to sleep when she had been tired and fading away . |
| 23 | At the weekend she had visited her parents ' home and spent some time with her sister , Jennifer , but she had found that she had been unable to tell them about David Markham . |
| 24 | Although the poem is conventional in several respects , it ends critically , not with the shepherdess cheered up by a song or by the sight of another attractive shepherd , but with Daphne recognizing that she has been gullible about her young man . |
| 25 | She had spent those long sleepless hours going back and forth over everything that had happened , every word they 'd spoken , everything she 'd seen , and at some point had come to realise that she 'd been wrong . |
| 26 | She wore a large dressing over one eye and her hands were daubed with gentian violet , but she insisted that she had been lucky . |
| 27 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 28 | One girl said that she had been unable to breathe , and was only able to do so when she covered her face with a pillow . |
| 29 | She wished that she had been able to spot him in the crowd . |
| 30 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |