Example sentences of "[pron] she [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She finished the blackleading — a truly nasty job which she was glad to be done with early in the day . |
| 2 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 3 | She might have backed off , gone into the pub and telephoned for a cab to fetch her ; but Holly knew who she was supposed to be meeting and she would feel foolishly fainthearted next day if she had to confess to being too nervous to see the matter through . |
| 4 | He had a little English and he said : ‘ She wants to tell you she is near to dying , and that she is n't afraid . |
| 5 | It was not that the family did not make her comfortable or spare any expense to see that she had the clothes and servants she needed , but rather that she found their way of life , their attitudes , their conversation , humour , tastes and ideas completely alien to everything she was used to . |
| 6 | In The Color Purple , Celie is not really aware that she is poor , simply because she knows no other lifestyle apart from the one she is accustomed to or the wealthier white people 's . |
| 7 | His manner was very different from the one she was used to . |
| 8 | She had told him she was unlikely to be in Town again in the foreseeable future , and was sure he was far too busy to have time to drive down to Sussex . |
| 9 | Without it she is vulnerable to infection which her body can not fight . |
| 10 | Or some of what she 's supposed to be doing |
| 11 | First of all , let's look at Barbara , who does n't understand what she 's supposed to be doing , because you 've failed to tell her clearly what her responsibilities are . |
| 12 | What she is entitled to under the law . ’ |
| 13 | She had three years to spend in a beautiful city , reading ; and that was what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 14 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 15 | He came closer and sat beside her on the grass , close , so that she could hardly concentrate on what she was supposed to be saying . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ she whispered , going pale again with fright as she remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |