Example sentences of "[subord] she be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tumbling blearily on deck in my pyjamas I was confronted by the huge bulk of a klondyke trawler ramming alongside us , and I was just in time to see her huge fender catch our motor dory and sink her where she was tied to our stern . |
| 2 | Where she came from , where she was going to , or what her name was , nobody knows . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I worked through the night to get them done and then drove to her house where she was confined to bed , ’ says Alan . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not the lion I fear , ’ she cried , ‘ but the jackal ’ , and although she was referring to Rufio , not Caesar , it was St Ives she confronted . |
| 5 | ‘ Back to bed , Julia , ’ he said in a kinder voice than she was used to in Venice . |
| 6 | But she came down with this dreadful flu bug , so she 's taken to her bed . ’ |
| 7 | Tiller was a stickler for cleanliness , so she was told to be strict in supervising their washing ( for some this was as novel an experience as appearing on stage ) . |
| 8 | ‘ She wo n't rest until she 's seen to your arm . |
| 9 | ‘ King Henry has decreed that it stays here until she is restored to Scotland . ’ |
| 10 | Alter the final pre-operative preparations were completed , a premedication was given at 11.00 am. and Mrs Fellows dozed comfortably until she was escorted to theatre . |
| 11 | He kissed her deeply , until she was clinging to his shoulders , and then he drew back . |
| 12 | Then she fell upon him , leaning out and abandoning herself to his grip , throwing both legs up until she was rammed to the hilt of him , and feeling that marvellous pulse as he squandered his month of continence into her , spending on and on . |
| 13 | Doctors seemed to be coming and going all morning , so it was n't until she was sent to coffee that Juliet had time to think of her mother . |
| 14 | You do n't say ? wrecking one cherished wish after another , until she was reduced to longing desperately for just an end to the regular death of the street-corner parting , the fear and loneliness of the long walk home . |
| 15 | I do n't know , cos she 's going to a friend 's for . |
| 16 | Cos she was going to the panto thingy . |
| 17 | Berenice 's blood-pressure is far too high and the doctors are insistent she must n't have worries of any kind if she 's to go to full term . ’ |
| 18 | Erm well if she 's going to be er having an income of about twenty thousand a year after the mortgage is paid I think that would be sufficient . |
| 19 | Erm , I wondered if I should ask her if she 's going to the chinese tomorrow if she wants to drop in on the way home . |
| 20 | If she does n't answer me seriously , he thought , if she 's listened to the chatter about me , she 's had it . |
| 21 | If she is to go to the Superfinal in Cardiff in May as leading qualifier , she must at least return home with gold and silver from the 50 and 100m freestyle this weekend . |
| 22 | They also negotiate with her a ‘ coming home time ’ if she is going to be out later than usual . |
| 23 | ‘ She has never missed a class and she will even telephone if she is going to be two minutes late . |
| 24 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
| 25 | I mean the if she were going to be next week or something , she 'll maybe want to organize most of it herself . |
| 26 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
| 27 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 28 | She dreaded being immobile and physically dependent , and she certainly felt as if heavy weights were attached to her feet and her legs ; she felt as helpless as if she were buried to her neck in quicksand . |
| 29 | She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part . |
| 30 | Alina stayed where she was , her eyes closed , almost as if she was listening to the silence . |