Example sentences of "it be she " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raw materials might have been there before — indeed , had n't it been she , Arlene , who had spotted them ? |
| 2 | Damn him for dissembling ; for pretending to Daniel that he was n't wounded to the core at being passed over , pretending that it was only Anna who was suffering , as if it were she who could not bear the lack of advancement , of increased prosperity . |
| 3 | Because it 's she who runs that business , not you . |
| 4 | ‘ But Una is of age and it 's she who will decide who she wants to marry . |
| 5 | Her stomach lurching in sympathy with the plane dropping down fast towards Bangkok convinces her dully that it 's she who 's done it : left England , friends , comrades , ways of seeing , the easy labels of self-definition . |
| 6 | It 's she who 's the focus of the frenzied promotional campaign of press interviews , TV appearances and live PAs that will begin this month with the release of the single , ‘ Money Love ’ — a gloriously busy , impossible-to-ignore , ‘ wall of sound ’ — type production , built around a blazing fuzz-guitar riff . |
| 7 | It 's she who 's in hospital . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , oh yes , yes , but the point is that the mother knows it 's she 's not her reproductive system is not a passive erm I mean you see how it looks in |
| 9 | I it 's she will type it in as two , and then you will give her the next draft and then two and then the next draft and then two , I mean there 's no confusion there for her . |
| 10 | I do n't know , it 's she might have had . |
| 11 | Erm okay so it 's she , Shirley you got slippers and Terry you 're getting slippers . |
| 12 | Well yes , but I mean it 's she seems to do the opposite thing to Charlotte , cos she used to sleep in the morning and fidget around in the afternoons and this one fidgets all morning and then sleeps in the afternoon . |
| 13 | It 's she never attempted to go she just wandered all round till she met me |
| 14 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
| 15 | Oh it 's she 's cantankerous ! |
| 16 | But I am prepared to accept that her delusions of grandeur are a form of psychosis connected with ageing and that her refusal to consider retirement springs from an awareness that it is she , not the country , who is in danger of falling to bits is she desists from hyper-activity . |
| 17 | But it is she who has created an atmosphere in which it is possible for her most senior minister to be publicly rubbished while she escapes without blemish or stain . |
| 18 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 19 | The gardener of the family is the Queen Mother , whose gardens at her Scottish hideaways , the Castle of Mey and Birkhall , are stunning , and it is she who over the years has made them so . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd better explain to me what it is she does as a job . |
| 21 | Yet it is she whom Abraham hands over to Sarah to do with as she pleases , and who is treated so cruelly by her mistress that she is forced to escape into the sands . |
| 22 | I have admired her greatly as someone who has an absolutely clear sense of what it is she is trying to achieve . |
| 23 | Under the watchful eye of the teacher the children improvise their shoe shop , and probably it is she who suggests the use of shelves for the ‘ display ’ of pairs . |
| 24 | In many cases it is she who develops an opportunity for talk with the children , following their interest in the activities provided , and pursues attention to ideas like one-to-one correspondence , comparison and so on . |
| 25 | Your wife says you have a lot to learn about being a parent , but it is she who has a lot to learn . |
| 26 | Can Sandra Bernhard ( FACE 48 ) seriously believe that , because it is she who is stripping for Playboy and not some ‘ subservient bimbo ’ , she has succeeded in subverting the soft-porn medium ? |
| 27 | Before she can eat , Snow White assumes the authorial voice , insisting that the other characters are her inventions , and that it is she who has always held the real power . |
| 28 | If she wants whatever it is she gets out of this relationship , no one can deny she 's entitled to it . |
| 29 | ‘ Bring her in to me , I 'll soon sort out just what it is she wants , ’ Emily said , rising to her feet and shaking the creases from her crinoline gown . |
| 30 | It seems that , quite contrarily , it is she who courts the male , and he who rears the chicks . |