Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her success , she insists on being down-to-earth and believes she has an obligation to give a little back to the sport which shot her to fame . |
| 2 | She longs to be wanted and loved , and can share affection . |
| 3 | ‘ But she hates to be confined . |
| 4 | When , after his assaults on her , she begs to be allowed to leave , her instinctive feeling for him makes her provide him with some hope of her return , or at least of their future communication . |
| 5 | Ian Rutherford 's beautiful , coloured photograph that she refers to was in the best possible taste and the reference to Gilbert and Sullivan could have caused offence only to someone with an inbuilt dislike to the two old stalwarts . |
| 6 | Take Frau Grossman , all she thinks about is finery and food , whereas Dr Grossman has his spectacles always in a book . |
| 7 | All she thinks about is clothes , shoes , hairstyles . |
| 8 | All she thinks about is being happy — and that means having the things she thinks will make her happy . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But these days — and heaven knows why ! — all she thinks about is Jeff ! ’ |
| 10 | and she 'll just think about it , and the more she thinks about being depressed the more she 'll get depressed in thinking |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps you were the sun for your little dragon ; and now she is strong enough , she wants to be free . ’ |
| 12 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 13 | What I ca n't understand is who she thanks when she wants to be thankful , for example when her son was born . |
| 14 | ‘ Madonna can be as big an actress as she wants to be , ’ says Ed O'Ross . |
| 15 | Well , I think at first they were both afraid to become music specialists , but she knows so much now — good contemporary pop music , not just my music — that she wants to be involved with it and she refuses to be professionally involved unless she has expert knowledge . |
| 16 | Joanne , now 17 and doing A-levels — she wants to be a doctor — still vaguely remembers Dohti and , according to her mother , keeps an open mind on the subject of reincarnation . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , its been a strain — I did n't mind at first because she 'd stay down at her flat for short periods of time , but obviously as her memory 's got worse she does n't realise that she 's got a flat , and the only thing she knows is in here , and this is the only place she wants to be — here . |
| 18 | If an elderly parent is giving up her home to move into yours it can be a very traumatic experience for her , even though you are ‘ family ’ and she wants to be with you . |
| 19 | She wants to be known as a workhorse and not a clothes horse . |
| 20 | ‘ She wants to be perfect for Don , ’ said the friend . |
| 21 | She wants to be able to go ahead with their plans for a family even if he dies . |
| 22 | Once a woman has decided what and who she wants to be , it is for the men in her life , if there are any , to re-educate themselves to take account of her . |
| 23 | Acceptance , dependence or rejection will therefore be inextricably tied in with the preservation of areas of activity which have given self-esteem , which are associated with a particular role function , which confirm the old person as the sort of person he or she wants to be . |
| 24 | Juliana played bass on the recent Lemonheads LP and Evan Dando has returned the favour by guesting on some ‘ Hey Babe ’ tracks ; she says they like making music together but she could n't be a Lemonhead , she wants to be herself . |
| 25 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 26 | She wants to be a champion . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think she wants to be a maiden aunt , ’ Simpson said . |
| 28 | She says that she wants to be a wildlife photographer . |
| 29 | She wants to be known as Our Lady of Blémont-la-Fontaine , and her feast-day is to be in early September on the day we have the harvest festival . |
| 30 | But she wants to be at home , with her husband , and lots of children , and dogs everywhere . ’ |