Example sentences of "she be [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 2 | She is led out of the cell , and the firing squad is lining up . |
| 3 | As an American commentator put it , ‘ a duchess abdicates when her son comes to his title ; she is turned out of the mansion where she once presided … ’ especially through this single-minded concentration of resources through inheritance on a principal heir that the English aristocracy were able to tighten their grip on the land . |
| 4 | The old man repudiates her and she is driven out of the house by her half-brother and a gang of servants : |
| 5 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 6 | She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything . |
| 7 | Then she was bounding out of the room , heading for the front door and rushing outside into the garden . |
| 8 | David came back as she was getting out of the bath . |
| 9 | As she was getting out of the Metro he opened the front door . |
| 10 | Three days before the opening night of the Season , Gesner — rather embarrassingly — stopped the rehearsal when he saw she was slipping out of the theatre to go home . |
| 11 | When the ILO was set up in Geneva , Sophy Sanger was appointed chief of its legislative section , a post she held until 1924 , when she was edged out of the organization by Albert Thomas , the director . |
| 12 | If they were an attention-seeking device , they were successful ; even when she was turned out of the church as she frequently was , the eyes of the whole congregation were on her ; sometimes , she reports proudly , people stood on stools to see her better . |
| 13 | Penny , three times world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday , lost vital points when , as she lay fifth in the seventh race in her class , the centre board broke and she was ruled out of the race . |
| 14 | The three-time world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday lost vital points when she was ruled out of the seventh race after her board broke . |
| 15 | The next minute she was running out of the yard and into the street again and into the shelter of the doorway leading into the hat shop . |
| 16 | She was going out of the band room when she suddenly asked , ‘ If someone takes liberties with you , is it partly your own fault ? ’ |
| 17 | He sneaked a look at her , and found he had an excellent view of the back of her head ; she was staring out of the passenger window at the darkening vista of St James 's Park . |
| 18 | She was staring out of the window . |
| 19 | He laughed under his breath and looked at her with reluctant appreciation , but Alyssia did n't notice because she was staring out of the window at the passing scenery , keeping her fingers tightly crossed that the car would n't stop wheezing and die completely on them before they reached Nice . |
| 20 | She was staring out of the window across the open space of the ‘ tZand when he came in . |
| 21 | Arms on the table , she was staring out of the window with unseeing eyes then , abruptly , she turned to face him . |
| 22 | In fact , immediately after the launching she was hauled out of the water again and it was to be the following September before she was actually ready , even though an optimistic delivery for June had been promised . |
| 23 | They say she was forced out of the National Health service because of no long term care beds . |
| 24 | And it was an old woman — she was a religious maniac and she was rushing out of the house in her nightie and praying in the gutter . |
| 25 | They had stalled him for long enough , but with a baby coming , he could n't wait any longer and then when Rachel told them she had to get married , she was thrown out of the house . |
| 26 | I met her one day when she was coming out of the hairdresser 's and I 'd been in to make an appointment for Caroline . |
| 27 | I actually hear Lisa the other night she was coming out of the bath , oh she said , the bath 's cold . |
| 28 | On one occasion a confused patient with subarachnoid haemorrhage harangued nurses and caused chaos on the ward until she was wheeled out of the high dependency unit for a cigarette , after which she settled down . |