Example sentences of "what she [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | A broker advised Mrs Harris to take what she thought was a short term loan secured on the house . |
| 32 | The 22-year-old told the jury that she had entered what she thought was a taxi at an Alloa stance about 1:45am on 26 October . |
| 33 | MARGARET Forster completed what she thought was the final draft of her biography of Daphne du Maurier in April 1992 and had dispatched it to the publisher . |
| 34 | Edith arrived one evening at a local hotel for what she thought was just a companiable dinner party amongst friends in very pleasant surroundings . |
| 35 | She now turned her smile on Millie , but she received no answering smile , only a stare from what she thought were those very odd grey eyes . |
| 36 | Quite suddenly whether Anne worried or what she thought were not of the least importance . |
| 37 | And she did n't take individual actions what she took was what she called clusters . |
| 38 | She had been in the royal straitjacket for five years and , like most women who marry and have children when they are very young , she began to realize what she had been missing out on . |
| 39 | She stopped , horrified at what she had been about to say . |
| 40 | For that was what she had been brought up to believe , that was how the rhyme went : |
| 41 | Mr Browning wrote to thank her for her diligence and in doing so confirmed what she had been certain of , that Miss Henrietta had died . |
| 42 | Nutty changed , and felt obliged to confess to her parents what she had been up to . |
| 43 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 44 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
| 45 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 46 | Benny could see her mother sitting there stretching her hand out full of what she had been full of for months now : the huge advantages of being able to come home every night by bus . |
| 47 | If only there were some way to release her from this bondage , turn her again into what she had been ; a young actress on her way to the top of the ladder , as Papa had often put it ! |
| 48 | Meredith told him what she had been doing since they last met and Markby gave a summary of his own activities . |
| 49 | She wondered how much of what she had been born with was left . |
| 50 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 51 | They had watched her , in the council estate , they knew what she had been doing . |
| 52 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 53 | Aggie went away thinking about what she had been told and she confided in Nellie Tanner once more . |
| 54 | It was what she had been told by the sisters at the convent . |
| 55 | And when she reflected , as she frequently did , upon what she had been bred to , she was profoundly puzzled by her own origins . |
| 56 | Peering through the wrought iron barrier she watched the nuns file into their stalls , wondering why there was a screen separating what she had been told was the sanctuary from the rest of the chapel . |
| 57 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
| 58 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 59 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 60 | Anything , but anything was better than what she had been through . |