Example sentences of "[pron] she [vb past] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could she say to someone she had been so close to , had spoken so bitterly to ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet she knew it was there , in the background , darkening all her thoughts , rendering her sleepless in the nights following their departure and also confirming something of which she had been dimly aware for a long time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She knew that she had lost her independence as a woman , which she had been so proud of . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A woman in her eighties was plagued by hallucinations of loud machinery noises coming from her neighbours ' houses , noises which she believed were deliberately made to disrupt her sleep . |
| 9 | I 'd suggested to Sarah it might be covered by Q P10.5 which actually says that the research approval form is signed by the researcher which she felt was n't really enough . |
| 10 | But there was something else which she felt was even more startling . |
| 11 | ‘ Anybody can do anything , ’ Josie said , which she knew was only so much bullshit but which she also believed was a reasonable dictum for getting a person through life . |
| 12 | Alone with the pages of her book , Louisa felt depleted by the knowledge that the world for which she wrote was so completely estranged from the values she cherished . |
| 13 | The literal world which she inhabited was so plainly hostile that she seized with ardour upon any references to any other mode of being ; she came across few direct ones , in that suburban and industrial spot , so she had to make do with the oblique . |
| 14 | The hall into which she stepped was not a hall at all , but a large and very high room , with doors leading off it in most directions , and it was so full of unexpected things that she found it hard to know where to look first . |
| 15 | The flighty girl she had been was graver , and her compassion was real because the suffering of which she spoke was no longer an abstract thing to her . |
| 16 | Which er which she stated was freely available in the flats . |
| 17 | She began to talk rapturously , pouring out speculations about the future , all mixed in with details of her life — which she claimed was deeply unhappy , under a permanent cloud because her mother had died giving birth to her . |
| 18 | The rock on which she perished is now looming . |
| 19 | She had genuinely meant to facilitate my exit from Dili ; at the time she 'd made her little speech to me she 'd been perfectly sincere . |
| 20 | While setting up the calm surface of village life in a realistic manner , the film does so only as a contrast to the savagery that ensues : a priest is shot while making a stand against ‘ the enemies and oppressors of mankind ’ , the Post Office lady kills a German with an axe and is promptly bayonetted herself , and the vicar 's daughter disposes of the Quisling squire , to whom she had been amorously linked . |
| 21 | During the last few days she had been sent a poison pen letter , had her life turned upside down , and now she was in the arms of the man whom she had been absolutely determined to divorce . |
| 22 | But she was an orphan , and the uncle and aunt with whom she lived were not at all well off . |
| 23 | AMAID who was regularly whipped and beaten by two Arab princesses for whom she worked was yesterday awarded £300,000 damages in the High Court . |
| 24 | And she and she she 'd been out she would n't come out |
| 25 | She wrote an article about evangelical Christianity , in which she complained bitterly about a particular writer , a Doctor Cumming , who she said was not merely intellectually dishonest in attempting , by slipper means , to reconcile traditional Christian belief with certain new kinds of discovery in archaeology and so on , but he was also lacking in charity and the way which he hammered everybody who did n't subscribe to his particular form of religious believe did n't seem to her to be anything to do with the true spirit of Christianity , so she was discontented with that form of Victorian religion . |
| 26 | But they forget that flowers are sent not only as a mark of respect for the dead , but also as a gesture of sympathy to the living , suffering widow , to bring some of the hopeful beauty of nature to soften the bleakness of one of the saddest days of her life , and to show her how much the one she loved was also loved by others . |
| 27 | Suppose she came back now and told him she 'd been somewhere else ? |
| 28 | Every instinct in her told her not to care , but as she had looked at him she had been all too aware of his lean virility and of her responses to it . |
| 29 | Yet in essence what she said was always the same . |
| 30 | Edith arrived one evening at a local hotel for what she thought was just a companiable dinner party amongst friends in very pleasant surroundings . |