Example sentences of "[vb base] she [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realise she was over-zealous the other day from what she told me afterwards . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect she 's elegant . ’ |
| 3 | At thirteen we were branded either jail-bait or ‘ Still , I expect she 's clever with her hands ’ — and we spend the next thirty years living up to it or living it down . |
| 4 | I expect she 's jealous really , because it 's me he 's interested in and not her . ’ |
| 5 | Oliver said , ‘ I expect she 's cross because it is n't her birthday . |
| 6 | I expect she was shocked . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I expect she was tired , ’ he said . |
| 8 | She hardly dared answer the old man 's ‘ Good Morning ’ ; and as for me , I expect she was afraid of me . |
| 9 | I expect she was worried . |
| 10 | I say she 's close enough to Gittel to satisfy me . ’ |
| 11 | Well , you know , I mean she 's gone to midwifery now and she 's , say she 's due home , half nine she 'll come home eleven o'clock and I 'll say where have you been till now ? |
| 12 | The other is that I do n't wish any harm to come to Miss Coleman and she may be safer where she is until they say she 's free to go . ’ |
| 13 | Some people say she 's Portuguese . |
| 14 | ‘ We are saying she 's a Glaucous but not swearing it until customs say she 's safe , ’ said Robin , who is trying to enlist Prince Charles in the struggle . |
| 15 | ‘ They say she 's wild after him . |
| 16 | Say she was sure who the father was ; and working in a racing stable with thoroughbreds she would know that proving paternity was increasingly an exact science . |
| 17 | People say she was lucky to be alive , but she did n't feel lucky . |
| 18 | And three Oxford Doctors have now written to the British Medical Journal to highlight the case of a forty two year old who broke her neck when her suit did n't stick , and they say she was lucky not to be paralysed . |
| 19 | She could pretend to be Celia , say she was unable to visit . |
| 20 | ‘ Lady Eleanor , Your Grace , men say she was ill ? ’ |
| 21 | And remember , when they ask about Billie , say she was edgy , always nervous . |
| 22 | People say she was lenient with me . |
| 23 | ‘ I think they just say she was beautiful , ’ said this new Xanthe Miranda had not known before , this precocious , sharp-witted little girl in the chic outfit . |
| 24 | ‘ You imagine she is blind because she feels I am annoyed ? ’ he rasped , looking at her as if she were stupid . |
| 25 | I just hope she 's civil enough because it 's his birthday . |
| 26 | I hope she 's well . ’ |
| 27 | Dr Neil avoided looking at a bridling McAllister , particularly when Mrs Darrell went on to say , still in the same shriek , ‘ Hope she 's honest , Neil . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope she 's right , ’ Hawkins said . |
| 29 | I hope she is wrong . |
| 30 | ‘ Let her be free , ’ he whispered , ‘ let her go free . ’ |