Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] she [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you 're forgetting that she has the use of them during the period of her life , ’ he retorted crisply . |
| 2 | OPHELIA has been sewing and she holds the garment . |
| 3 | Even the dogs would be hushed as she told the story of the highwayman who came riding , riding by , or the shipwrecked sailor lost in a terrible storm , or the faithful lady who died by the gun to warn her lover that he was riding into a Roundhead trap . |
| 4 | Mrs Thatcher later parried more questions when the Liberal Democrat Mr Charles Kennedy ( Ross , Cromarty and Skye ) asked her whether she felt her ‘ diminishing credibility ’ would be salvaged if she followed the advice of the former chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee , Sir Edward du Cann , that a leadership challenge would clear the air . |
| 5 | But the Department has told her to destroy all copies , return the original and warned that further action could be taken if she ignores the advice . |
| 6 | Britain 's voluntary , though gradual , conversion of the colonial Empire into the British Commonwealth of Nations would help her recovery as a great power : her military commitments to provide overseas garrisons should diminish , and her influence was expected to be enhanced as she became the central pivot of an association of free and independent states girdling the globe . |
| 7 | But Annie 's plans for a restful break were shattered when she discovered the holiday hideaway has a ghost . |
| 8 | Stella 's hands were trembling as she held the torch . |
| 9 | Mary 's heart was beating fast and her hands were shaking as she pushed the leaves away and found the key-hole . |
| 10 | If the nest is disturbed and she decides the family should flee , the youngsters behave in an extremely disciplined way . |
| 11 | Christopher Smythe , defending , said hazard lights on Mrs Bone 's car may have been obscured as she changed the wheel . |
| 12 | The mirror was broken and she hated the casual glimpses she got of her face as she cleaned her teeth or when she passed the hall-stand . |
| 13 | It was reported that she disturbed the prowler when she arrived back unexpectedly at her family 's Melbourne home . |
| 14 | Miss Stephanie Farrimond , prosecuting , said the woman was attacked after she left the Savoy nightclub , Clacton , on August 1 last year . |
| 15 | The woman was attacked as she left the Yarm Road branch of Barclay 's Bank at 11am , yesterday . |
| 16 | The 20 year old student was attacked as she used the women 's toilets near the Martyr 's Memorial in the centre of Oxford . |
| 17 | Kelly 's head was swimming as she left the racecourse . |
| 18 | Her heart was racing before she pulled the door open . |
| 19 | Idiotically , her heart was racing when she reached the drawing-room . |
| 20 | Maybelle , face ashen , was transfixed as she watched the Tunstalls leave . |
| 21 | Last year he had thought Rose was exaggerating when she described the experience . |
| 22 | The mare 's breath was roaring as she reached the crest . |
| 23 | Then he was gone and she held the receiver for a moment feeling unexpectedly bereft . |
| 24 | Daisy , 57 , of Hindon , near Salisbury , Wilts , was hit as she walked the dog to a nearby village . |
| 25 | Not even her grandmother 's Co-op book , which Moira was carrying when she left the house to go to the shop , was uncovered . |
| 26 | Julie 's hand was shaking as she pushed the key into the ignition but she sucked in a deep breath and started the car , checking her rear-view mirror both for approaching traffic and , more particularly , for that Granada . |
| 27 | Twenty-four hours later he admonished Babs for over-stressing the little-girl aspect of Cleopatra , pointing out that childishness of character was not a question of years and that she was mistaken if she supposed the difference between folly and wisdom had anything to do with either age or youth . |
| 28 | It was snowing when she reached the side-road marked on the map , and she heaved a sigh of relief when she spotted the dark shape of a cottage . |
| 29 | Detectives think Sian was killed because she recognised the man — and were last night sifting through hundreds of betting slips for clues . |
| 30 | Amelia Earhart — American heroic pioneer in aviation whose plane was lost as she attempted the circumnavigation of the earth . |