Example sentences of "she [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought she was never going to stop until I heard a woman say , ‘ I see 'er 's still showin' off . ’ |
| 2 | Why had n't she been in to work ? |
| 3 | Later , I asked her again : had n't she been somewhat shattered by their tone ? |
| 4 | Had she been less committed to parenting , perhaps because her children were older and seen to be less in need of her support , or had it been an event which threatened a role or idea to which she was less committed , perhaps losing a part-time job which she did not enjoy , the effect would be less threatening . |
| 5 | What had she been about to do ? |
| 6 | If the whole business was so easily explained , why had she been so affected by his first mention of it ? |
| 7 | On her return , would she be casually dismissed from her job ? |
| 8 | Where could she be more needed and honoured ? |
| 9 | " Thanks , " he said , drily , " oh , thanks ! " and began stripping off his jersey , as though she were already gone . |
| 10 | Feeling as if she were slowly dying inside , she listened to the words . |
| 11 | Even if she were finally cleared by Nick Morley 's investigation , she would remain guilty by association in the eyes of many racecourse insiders . |
| 12 | As it seemed , if she were not to die of her love she had to poison it ; and even , over its death agonies , to exult . |
| 13 | Of course , she would die very quickly if she were not to receive intensive and expensive round-the-clock treatment from the staff of the nursing home where she is now a patient . |
| 14 | The mother would have to rent a property for herself and the boys if she were not to accept the offer of rent-free accommodation for a month with a friend of the father . |
| 15 | Martha turned and shook off her idleness , realising that the old woman would continue enumerating chores if she were not distracted . |
| 16 | ‘ He means , ’ said Rita , slowly , in her loud classroom voice , ‘ anyone could walk in as long as he or she were not carrying a package that did look suspicious . ’ |
| 17 | If the dream were to lose its power , if she were somehow to prevent it recurring , she must face again the memory of that afternoon nearly thirty years ago . |
| 18 | She were just telling me one of her friends that sh when she was in |
| 19 | Emmie felt frightened as if she were just going to jump into deep water . |
| 20 | She were just laid there , dead still , ’ said the home-help , relishing the sound of her own words . |
| 21 | So she were just having a crumpet , she 's but butter were all melting , I says I can just picture now running down your chin and |
| 22 | so she were just having a few crumpets |
| 23 | Oh its its its chronic , Tracy and Yvonne take hundreds of calls that are nowt to do with us , we 've what was it , we had complaints and discipline on on Friday afternoon , they wanted Superintendent J Smith and complaints and discipline on Friday afternoon , she were just gon na transfer it and Jim walked in so we just had a phone call for you he said |
| 24 | I says , she were just making arrangements to come to your house depending |
| 25 | ‘ Julia , ’ she said , as though she were just waking up . |
| 26 | And she all an and she were also telling me that erm Ben er two boys at school set about Ben the other night and beat him up ! |
| 27 | She ca n't remember any but there again you were she were n't looking for green . |
| 28 | It 's this terrible pseudo-rational nagging by just carrying on normally , as if she were n't nagging me at all . |
| 29 | Tell her again cos she were n't listening . |
| 30 | said she were n't wearing why are you bothering . |