Example sentences of "she [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | But all she got were what Foucard would have called stereotype Frenchmen , and Denis was not there to laugh . |
| 32 | Mrs Allen rarely spoke to any of the hospital staff ; any information she got was via her stepson . |
| 33 | She tried the Moebius Strip , but all she got was an answering routine . |
| 34 | She wanted harshness , remote ritual , a difficult kind of virtue ; what she got was an upholstered smile and an approach like a cosy London policeman 's to a well-bred drunk on Boat Race night . |
| 35 | ‘ I 've been asking myself that question , ’ Jenna confessed , but all she got was another suspicious look . |
| 36 | When he pulled her back she expected very harsh reprisals but all she got was a very speculating look . |
| 37 | But the most she got was a hasty and inexpensive meal after the evening performance on the nights he wanted her to go to bed with him . |
| 38 | Well one of their videos erm Martin had got the position of the camera set up wrong so all she got was erm arms . |
| 39 | All she got was a glimpse of the empty Pyrenees , and the tiny concentrated ball of the rising sun , alternately revealed and hidden as they crossed from one face to another with first one peak throwing its dark bulk between them and then another . |
| 40 | And , and we 've just had our walls repainted and I furious with with erm Rita cos all she we , all she got was these bloody pastel colours I tell you if I was |
| 41 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 42 | Else says a shiver went up 'er spine , and she knew she 'ad been called . ’ |
| 43 | The first thing she asked was if I had done what I promised |
| 44 | A woman she passed was telling her husband to put on his shirt or he would bum . |
| 45 | In any case , what she produced was something generous , anxious , and grateful . |
| 46 | I think it was copied from Victoria , Victoria had a lot of influence upon women obviously , she had a lot of children ; women too , women , apart from the fact there was no effective contraception , it was the duty of woman to bear a lot of children so that they could carry on the line , which was also why woman had to be very chaste and pure so that man could be sure that the son that she produced was actually his legitimate heir . |
| 47 | So the precious day came and went , and the only person she visited was Maggie , who did n't have a lot of sympathy . |
| 48 | The door she tried was unyielding ; the bell she pulled echoed inside some shuttered hallway but nobody answered . |
| 49 | Each random spot she tried was the same . |
| 50 | Anke did not play at her best in the Federation Cup in Nottingham last year but the way she moved was unbelievable . |
| 51 | And she said Geoff kept saying to her oh I would n't move from where you are , you know you got your place lovely i if you the reason she moved was cos she wanted Tony to get the breakfast round What was said that 's what Val said . |
| 52 | The look she encountered was difficult to read . |
| 53 | Every name she mentioned was noted down , not only by the stenographer , but by Beamish . |
| 54 | She had never been exposed to anything like it before , and initially she found being the centre of attention quite amusing . |
| 55 | She went through his pockets but all she found was a spare clip for the FN FAL . |
| 56 | She stopped being really French , everyone says so . |
| 57 | Is my right hon. Friend further aware that she is supported by our party in being circumspect about jumping to conclusions before the official inquiry report to which she referred is received ? |
| 58 | The recipe she used was taken from the WI Book of Bread and Buns . |
| 59 | Only the night she died , the bucket she used was full of oil , not water . ’ |
| 60 | Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous . |