Example sentences of "be [verb] be her [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ari sat across from the man she 'd been told was her father , appraising him with a critical eye .
2 A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway .
3 And er I well remember on one occasion in the course of my analysis with Anna Freud I had the uncanny feeling , well this was more than an uncanny feeling , I think it was the reality , I touched the superego of Sigmund Freud because at one point I said something in my analysis which implied that her father , for instance , might have some interest in religion and Anna Freud flared up and what I felt was flaring was her superego and this was the superego she had got by identification with her father .
4 And this Fulham woman who was administering arsenic , only all that was happening was her hubby was getting a tingling in his feet . "
5 She had fond memories of walking hand-in-hand with her uncle , a famous preacher , who was to have been her guardian had all her family died prematurely .
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