Example sentences of "[be] she [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 2 | At the same time , he would n't feel at all happy were she to marry someone she could not possibly love simply to make her life easier , more luxurious . |
| 3 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 4 | She never comes because he hangs himself , she has nobody to be nurse to , but her journey — were she to have made it — would prove as nugatory as his . |
| 5 | The second reason was that , even were she to have a successful pregnancy and birth , she was terrified that she might one day be carrying her child in her arms when she fainted and might then drop or hurt the child in some way . |
| 6 | On the contrary , were she to change her mind now , he would be unbearably disappointed and frustrated . |
| 7 | Were she to believe that it did matter , she would be finished . |
| 8 | One gentleman even said to her that , were she to run such a boarding house in England and charge what she charged in Florence , she would be besieged . |
| 9 | So what is she to do ? |
| 10 | He rose , began to pace the room , stared at the butler who entered , and said to Orrin , ‘ Beg pardon , sir , for interrupting , but the housekeeper says that a young woman , claiming to be Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , has arrived at the servants ’ entrance , and what is she to do ? ’ |
| 11 | Is she to give up being a housewife , put the children in a day-care centre and take paid work ? |
| 12 | All I want is her to carry on brushing my hair with her hands . |
| 13 | And that 's her to sort out . |
| 14 | What on earth was she to do now ? |
| 15 | What was she to do with such a thing ? |
| 16 | What was she to do ? |
| 17 | What was she to do ? |
| 18 | What was she to do ? |
| 19 | And she , at her age , what was she to do ? |
| 20 | But what was she to do next ? |
| 21 | What was she to do ? |
| 22 | What was she to do ? |
| 23 | What was she to do now ? |
| 24 | Viola said she was going to sell the house , because it was too big for her ( Hilary had just moved out ) , and she found the stairs difficult — so what was she to do with Walter 's manuscripts and stuff , which were legally Mam 's ? |
| 25 | She had n't wanted to have people at all , but there they were and what was she to do with them ? |
| 26 | Oh , God , what was she to do ? |
| 27 | Oh , what was she to do ? |
| 28 | What was she to do ? |
| 29 | Now what was she to do ? |
| 30 | How was she to explain that she did n't go in for this high-profile look ? |