Example sentences of "she be [adv] a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't be coarse , ’ said my mother , adding , ‘ She 's actually a very good cook . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's really a very kind person but she 's led a completely sheltered life and … ’ |
| 3 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 4 | ‘ She 's still a very sick girl , Melody . |
| 5 | Mandy Smith sacrificed the magic of her childhood to amuse an immature Bill Wyman , and she is now a very ill young woman . |
| 6 | Her sophistication was paper-thin , and underneath she was just a very young , and probably over-protected , girl . |
| 7 | She was normally a very honest person — so why had she just lied through her teeth ? |
| 8 | Leith was sorry she 'd missed seeing him , but resumed work , realising that since she was only a very small cog in a big machine Mr Massingham would be too busy to make a second visit , or remember , should he be interested in numbers , that there was one member of staff he had n't met yet . |
| 9 | But she was still a very great queen . |
| 10 | Stella moved , and as the light caught her Merrill noticed that on the fine tanned skin there was an etching of small lines at the corners of her mouth and around her eyes , but she was still a very beautiful woman . |
| 11 | She was obviously a very well-educated woman . |
| 12 | Naughty girl , always makes fun she was absolutely a very intelligent woman but she spoke soft and slowly so everybody just sort of , who knew her superficially , she was not a very intelligent woman , she really was I can assure you . |