Example sentences of "be her " in BNC.

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1 3 I 'm her one friend now , the only living being she gets to see .
2 I mean I 'm her relative around here and certainly no one cuts my lawn .
3 She , she was going like , you 're me and I 'm her
4 Who would have thought it would be her , Minnie ?
5 If somebody 's got to benefit from inequality , her shrug suggests , it might as well be her .
6 I thought it might be her .
7 I 'm … well , it must be her .
8 I was so cowed that I did n't even say who I was ; I pretended to be her .
9 ‘ Once I heard her start singing the songs I knew it had to be her , ’ he says .
10 I always think , it could be her .
11 Surely that ca n't be her ?
12 And , as Ace had pointed out , it had to be her .
13 She seemed to feel that if it could n't be her and Fred bashing about and howling and singing , nobody else was bloody well going to .
14 It could be her . ’
15 It seemed such a bizarre exchange after two decades of silence that he repeated her name — ‘ Sue ? ’ — as if it might turn out not to be her after all .
16 Oh , and then , and then that it should be her .
17 I suppose it could n't be her , could it ?
18 Whoever Harry chose to marry now , it would not be her !
19 It must be hell to be her , with her crazy parents who were always on the scrounge , though she did n't seem even to be aware of her situation .
20 It must be her .
21 It would n't be her .
22 It would n't be her at all .
23 Claudia looked in the long mirror for the last time , and her breath caught in her throat ; that beautiful bride could n't be her .
24 ‘ Then I ca n't be her , can I ? ’
25 I am a self-contained person : neat and elegant : or was until I met Eleanor , who , disgraced , childless , alone , sprawled and wriggled against the shiny black sofa with the big red flowers , and I knew I would rather be her , her life out of control , than me as I was with Lou ; a woman whom an editor could describe as ‘ the mistress of controlled reportage ’ .
26 Why did it have to be her ? ’
27 Could it be her ?
28 This fabliau makes explicit a linkage between vagina and mouth that we find implied elsewhere amongst the fabliaux : e.g. in Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons , " The knight who made the cunts talk " , or Berengier au lonc cul , " Berengier of the long arse " , where a woman disguised as a knight makes her recreant husband kiss what seems to him to be her exceptionally long arse .
29 For the twins ' sakes , she must put aside all her antagonistic feelings , the deep frustration she felt at having to coexist , cheek by jowl , with a man she fervently hoped would soon be her ex -husband .
30 Then she discovered that it was Travis she had to thank that the news of her engagement to his cousin was all over Vasey 's , as , still smiling , he stated , ‘ Hope you do n't mind , Naylor , but I came in earlier to have a quick word with Leith , and could n't resist telling her assistant that a possible reason for Leith being late this morning could be her getting engaged to you at the weekend . ’
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