Example sentences of "she be [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Had n't she been lost seven years ago , in the misty dawns and the drowsy afternoons ?
2 HAD SHE been born 10 years ago , baby Jessica Kelly would by now have spent most of her life in hospital .
3 and she 'd fell in it and she were having right fits .
4 It would worry me if I was having to feed her all the time but knowing that three days out of seven she 's getting good meals , it does n't worry me so much .
5 Cause they were bigger bags and they were heavier she 's getting real problems
6 And my my aunt that I my grandmother that I stayed with , their neighbour down the stair was quite indignant and saying , I 'm away to work and she 's getting twelve shillings the same .
7 And Jean 's started to move the furniture around … a sign that she 's getting itchy feet :
8 She has often darkly alluded to some form of abuse in her own formative years , and there 's a strong sense that she 's singing these songs to someone in particular .
9 My father could n't come because he 's publicly declared his opposition to the wedding and my mother would n't dare come without him — but she 's sent good wishes through one of the cousins .
10 It 's worth up to £4,000 , but would-be murderer Sheila Stroud was allowed out of Holloway Prison , where she 's serving 18 years , and driven to Cheltenham to dispute Mr Stokle 's claim .
11 Well actually , at least she 's wearing decent colours .
12 She 's wearing faded jeans and a long black coat and has a purposeful air about her .
13 She 's bringing some files I have to work on .
14 She 's lost three years of her life , and that 's a lot of losing .
15 Joan Reid has been a student at Malvern Hills college since she retired as a civil servant on health grounds — now she 's learning new skills in the upholstery class .
16 She 's had to restrict the amount of time he spends playing them , and she 's warning other parents not to let children use the games for long periods unsupervised .
17 ‘ Er — she 's made some mistakes ? ’
18 Oh she 's picking wrong colours
19 She 's gathered 18,000 signatures in Swindon on a petition protesting about the fuel tax .
20 I like that , I , I think it 's really sweet when she 's taking those tablets and he 's sitting there
21 She 's phoned several times over the past couple of days . ’
22 She 's spent 6 years researching his life and she 's now written a book which describes him as a talented , but essentially ordinary man .
23 The woman returner can feel inadequate when she goes back to work , forgetting that she 's spent several years managing and developing human resources at home .
24 Unless she 's took three quarters of turkey back .
25 Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country .
26 and she 's doing other things through work that you know , I 'm I mean it in theory it 's sort of giving some support to .
27 You know ’ he added thoughtfully ‘ if she 's keeping any secrets in that place she 's not trying very hard with a back-door lock like that .
28 ‘ I hear she 's bought new beds , chairs and a piano !
29 No you can wait until you can see her going out with wait until the car 's not there if you know what car she 's driving these days .
30 Miss Rose admitted she did n't remember much of that day , except for Celia 's long labour — which I did know about , but it slipped my mind — so it 's possible she 's forgotten other deliveries during the day , when there were other midwives on duty .
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