Example sentences of "she [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | we , you see , and she of was often pottering in her garden |
| 2 | Marie Grubbe was incapable of not loving Søren ; she was neither to be congratulated upon the fact , nor was she to be criticised for it . |
| 3 | Was she to be next in the circle ? |
| 4 | Yes , because it 'll be nice , us , it 's , I mean they , abode there is a lot oth , there is , there is a lot of other work now , there prisoner are prisoner of is still fairly central is n't it , he or she to be , to be er , the work we do . |
| 5 | Did this mean therefore that in some way France had forfeited her position in Indochina and was she to be treated as an opponent rather than an ally ? |
| 6 | Was she to be sentenced that long ? |
| 7 | Her mother said it was all nerves , but what had she to be nervy about ? |
| 8 | " Well , my son , but where is she to be found ? " |
| 9 | Rosa made a little game out of answering , so pleased was she to be entertaining him with her talk . |
| 10 | It has allowed her to use what she says most pleases her about being a novelist : ‘ the capacity to tell other stories , fight secret wars ’ . |
| 11 | She did n't blush any more at jokes about somebody 's bust — but this was his fault for teasing her about being narrow-minded . |
| 12 | I used to tease her about being so house-proud and she 'd tell me how her Aunt Rosina brought her up to do everything just so . ’ |
| 13 | The headmistress , who had always ridiculed her for being bad at games , now referred to her as ‘ our best pupil ’ and gave her a set of Shakespeare , duly inscribed . |
| 14 | By then it was too late to try and change her policy , for the overseer seemed to have taken a real dislike to her , watching for any slip she made , so that he could punish her for being high and mighty as he called it . |
| 15 | Of course , it was a shame about that incident when she assaulted the headmaster , but he should n't really have laughed at her for being the only child there who does n't take drugs . |
| 16 | ‘ Aye , come through into the kitchen , ’ Hari spoke guardedly and Emily could n't blame her for being suspicious . |
| 17 | It was impossible not to notice how aroused he had become , and she thought of all the women who would envy her for being in this situation . |
| 18 | Wycliffe thanked her for being so frank and got up to leave . |
| 19 | ‘ Was it right to criticise her for being , as you thought , unkind , and then be even more unkind yourself ? |
| 20 | He 's congratulated her for being so perceptive … but says the errors were actually made on purpose . |
| 21 | Ms Nelson has praised her for being brave enough to take the case . |
| 22 | Susan Snaith from Stanley selected TVam weather girl Ulrika as her body model ‘ I envy her for being voted best bum . |
| 23 | And she says later sh you , you 're too cruel , to Rochester , you ca n't blame her for being mad . |
| 24 | The literacy models for her O.P.P are very contemporary . |
| 25 | One day an older woman who wore the veil cursed her and accused her of being loose . |
| 26 | She closed her eyes in ecstasy as Jamie flung himself on her , accusing her of being a flirt . |
| 27 | When they do , they turn on the person and accuse him or her of being old-fashioned and not accepting them as they are . |
| 28 | She accused her of being her husband 's mistress . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ I accused her of being unfaithful . |
| 30 | He accuses her of being a stooge of the EGP , the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ; he say she is a front for this ‘ hard-line rebel group ’ which is ‘ bent on achieving communist revolution by force of arms ’ . |