Example sentences of "[pron] she [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | It turned out , after cross examination , that the bottle in question was in fact a bottle of Algizin-P , which she had been told to use to keep her fish healthy . |
| 32 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
| 33 | ‘ Fred ’ as she was called on the circuit , played no less than 26 Federation and Wightman Cup rubbers for Britain , before directing her sporting talents , in a competitive sense , increasingly towards golf to which she had been introduced by her devoted husband Keith , himself a former leading British tennis junior . |
| 34 | But it would have made no difference to his attitude to Matilda : for him — whatever the circumstances in which she had been removed — she was a runaway nun who should be forced to return to her convent . |
| 35 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 36 | These were the ordinary things from which she had been protected by her money and her ill health . |
| 37 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 38 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 39 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 40 | She knew that she had lost her independence as a woman , which she had been so proud of . |
| 41 | On the day after Christmas she received the letter from him which she had been expecting . |
| 42 | After the depressing makeshifts to which she had been reduced by British rationing , the sensation of wonderful materials against her skin was almost as pleasing as the vendeuse 's comments about ‘ Madame 's wonderful figure ’ and striking face . |
| 43 | Although she could have sworn she had blacked out , she still somehow recalled the journey on which she had been taken by the tall man and a few others . |
| 44 | As Charlotte did so , she felt increasingly impatient with the veiled sarcasm to which she had been subjected . |
| 45 | The police had apologized for the incident as if they were personally to blame , their apologies becoming even more profuse as they told her that , without a number plate ( which she had been unable to remember ) to trace , there was little chance of them finding the car , let alone the driver . |
| 46 | While no one must know the extent to which she had been alarmed , she had no objection to them knowing the cause . |
| 47 | Subsequently she became one of the queens of the Parisian demi-monde , ruling in the late 1860s over a loucher version of the Court from which she had been excluded . |
| 48 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 49 | But just before the deal was finalised , Ms Cann realised there were four more Animals of Farthing Wood titles of which she had been unaware . |
| 50 | Betty 's stated guiding principle , that every child should experience success , was not at variance with the philosophy behind the school-imposed innovation with which she had been virtually obliged to become involved . |
| 51 | As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour . |
| 52 | She sat down awkwardly on one of the chairs , feeling highly incongruous in her black dress , which she had been obliged to put back on that morning , and looked down at her stiletto-clad feet . |
| 53 | If his hair swayed into her face as they settled in the bus she wanted to hold it , to rub her cheek on it , to put it to her lips , and she thought there would be no pleasure in the world like giving in to him , which she had been anticipating with impatience but anxiety for so long . |
| 54 | He had certainly researched Grantham and Marsh and the testimonial Sebastian had purportedly given her was in line with the high regard in which she had been told she was held by the company , although she 'd hardly expected to be given such a glowing recommendation . |
| 55 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 56 | It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps . |
| 57 | She resolutely pushed away the memory of Dr Neil and the life which she had been going to share with him . |
| 58 | Taking it up , and with no very clear idea of what she meant to do — apart from escaping from the humiliations to which she had been subjected — Theda crept out of the room , down two sets of stairs , and slunk past the open door of the coffee-room , where the landlord 's voice was joined to those of his wife and the gentleman . |
| 59 | Theda demanded , indignation warring with the hurt she was experiencing from the dreadful blow that had been dealt her , the vicious attack to which she had been subjected . |
| 60 | A constant eerie keening sound , which she had been only vaguely aware of until then , had suddenly risen to a blood-chilling shriek , before being abruptly cut off . |