Example sentences of "she be [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time .
2 She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them .
3 The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time .
4 She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time .
5 even though she 's getting it for the technology .
6 Just a day after Kevin , 33 , visited his JobCentre , she joked : ‘ People will make sarcastic comments like ‘ She 's done it for the £7 child benefit ’ .
7 She 's taking me to the Tower of London .
8 She 's told you about the bathing ? ’
9 she 's doing everything by the book I think , so
10 No well she had this special thing so it 's done the trick so she has n't worn it yet though , I think she 's doing it for the wedding ai n't she ?
11 Oh , Jesus , she 's driving us up the wall .
12 But I mean it 's not just that , she 's killing herself for the job like !
13 My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak .
14 In letters to charities she is warning them about the extra administration time that trustees will spend making tax claims and notifying changes of registered particulars , and advising them that much of it could be saved by selling existing investments and contributing the proceeds of sale to a common investment fund .
15 She is expressing herself against the popular wisdom concerning her sex .
16 Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them .
17 She was helping me with the french .
18 She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’
19 She was pursuing him like the Fury pursuing the crime .
20 She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing !
21 The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time .
22 She was watching them over the rim of the glass , looking from one to the other of their faces , trying to follow their too rapid talk .
23 She was watching him through the cigarette smoke to judge the effect she was producing .
24 I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal .
25 She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye .
26 Now , all that mattered was that she was following him up the stairs to an elegant Georgian town house .
27 She was to keep it for the next three and a half years .
28 She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’
29 Mind you , she was starving herself to the point of endangering her life and had to be hospitalized , but er oh no , her hormon her hormon well her hormonal changes went into reverse , they absolutely did .
30 The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard .
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