Example sentences of "she be [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had she been doing on her own up there by the long barrow ? |
| 2 | The first time out she had seen nothing but a sea of faces , so hard had she been concentrating on what she was doing . |
| 3 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 4 | Neither would she be shouting about their liaison from the rooftops . |
| 5 | And what would she be doing with her Saturday ? she wondered grimly . |
| 6 | But at the sight of Bob 's expression she got up , blushing again , and walked about the room as if she were looking for something . |
| 7 | But there was more than that — it was almost as if she were looking for something . |
| 8 | He handed her the file , watching her flick through it quickly , again as if she were looking for something specific . |
| 9 | She twisted in the seat to peer at every building , her eyes seeking the upper windows above shops rather than the goods on display , as if she were looking for someone . |
| 10 | Her expression was one of utter distaste , as though she were looking at something a dog had done in the middle of the floor . |
| 11 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 12 | And er , it went wrong so she took her daughter 's out of her bedroom and using hers and when our John came down she were telling about it so he said oh I 'll take it this Sunday and I 'll fix it for you , of course with John working away he took the television |
| 13 | Mentally , Mrs Stych felt as if she were writhing in her death agonies . |
| 14 | She felt almost naked , as if she were parading in her chemise . |
| 15 | Lee felt as if she were fighting for her life . |
| 16 | It was almost as if she were pleading with them . |
| 17 | Well anybody knows she actually int cos there was nobody in there to , to see what she were doing with it . |
| 18 | erm what she were arguing with me about is her age . |
| 19 | It sounded as though she were talking to someone she knew well , or at least had dealt with previously , because she called her interlocutor ‘ Tonio ’ and smiled continuously as though engaged in invisible wooing and sometimes she laughed . |
| 20 | When she were talking to us Aunty Mary you could hear some Yorkshire accent . |
| 21 | she were talking to herself in the end ! |
| 22 | Amsterdam sipped his Madeira , seeing Topaz as clearly as if she were sitting opposite him . |
| 23 | She were laughing at me Joyce when it happened to me , I ca n't believe how stupid you are she said |
| 24 | He undressed her equally slowly , and she felt as though she were standing outside herself , watching almost with detachment as he exposed her breasts to his gaze and slowly lowered his head until his mouth could touch one rosy peak . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's chaperoning for me on Monday next week , ’ the boy explained . |
| 26 | She 's getting on my nerves . |
| 27 | She 's getting into it now . |
| 28 | Now she 's getting like her mother . |
| 29 | She says she ca n't understand why she 's getting the treatment she 's getting from her . |
| 30 | ‘ She 's calling for her mate . ’ |