Example sentences of "[be] [conj] she be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might have been if she was going at you would n't she ? |
| 2 | Could it possibly be that she was missing something ? |
| 3 | it must be when she 's coming . |
| 4 | Robbie sat up , wide awake , but the dream was as vivid in her memory as it had been while she was experiencing it . |
| 5 | Chrissie is relatively young and inexperienced , and while she may be a hardened liar and criminal , we feel the balance of the probabilities is that she is telling the truth . |
| 6 | The gossip is that she is thinking of resigning from the practice and going back to her home town . |
| 7 | Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her . |
| 8 | and they confirm that Dreadnought has been officially classed as a wreck , and what 's worse , I 'm afraid , is that she 's lying near enough to the shipping channels for them , to quote their letter , to exercise their statutory powers and remove her by means of salvage craft . " |
| 9 | ‘ All I worry about is that she 's going to come back . ’ |
| 10 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 11 | You see , what I did n't know , is that she was feeling terribly nervous as well , just as I was . |
| 12 | The more likely explanation is that she was pressurising him to leave your daughter to marry her . |
| 13 | Well Yes I suppose that the thing is if she 's having to work extra hours , she ought to be paid for them . |
| 14 | That 's cos she was leaning right over you see . |
| 15 | Mrs Peel , however , saw things differently , saying of the head , ‘ She seemed to be assessing me rather than John … it 's like she 's shifting the blame on to me … she used to speak to me like I was a really bad mother . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's like she 's laughing at us . ’ |
| 17 | She thinks it 's because she was carrying Gemma . |
| 18 | Faced with actually going back to the barn , she was not now so serene about it as she had been when she was lying in the field and gazing at the sky . |
| 19 | What he never doubted was that she was listening . |
| 20 | The last thing she wanted him to think was that she was prying into that which did not concern her . |
| 21 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 22 | All she knew was that she was turning into McAllister again , Dr Neil 's pert and lively maid , and that this was the haven which she had unconsciously been seeking in the months since Havvie Blaine had assaulted her . |
| 23 | Now , all that mattered was that she was following him up the stairs to an elegant Georgian town house . |
| 24 | Marshall 's instant thought was that she was waiting to be picked up . |
| 25 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 26 | And er I do do n't know which day it was but she was sitting there fed up second day I 'm thinking she said well I , I 'm going home tomorrow , so I said no you 're staying in for the week ! |
| 27 | The only reason Janine had cheered up was because she was taking her child from her . |
| 28 | But of course all that was because she was leaving . |
| 29 | It was because she was crying . |
| 30 | well no I did n't but that only was because she was focusing her attention on and work so I never had need |