Example sentences of "she be [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.

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1 She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them .
2 The man may feel that , if she 's harking back to the whys and wherefores , his wife is rubbing his nose in the past .
3 With partner Jill Clark , she 's won through to the quarter-finals of the Japanese Open after beating the world 's number two pair from Indonesia .
4 She 's going back to the Isle of Wight .
5 Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her .
6 She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him .
7 Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge .
8 She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings .
9 Then , before she realised it , they had stopped and she was pushed down to the ground next to Sung , her back to him .
10 As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew .
11 She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth .
12 As I understood it she was flying back to the States tomorrow . ’
13 When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance .
14 And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible .
15 He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out .
16 It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana .
17 She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light .
18 Somewhere below , only a few minutes away but in another world completely , she was running back to the house , Simon in hot pursuit .
19 Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever .
20 She was going back to the knacker 's .
21 Emily left me , mouthing as she went out of the door that she was going back to the office .
22 Then , head bent , she was hurrying back to the villa , suddenly knowing in her heart what had to be done .
23 When she was allowed through to the nave she discovered dancers rehearsing a performance and robed guides discouraging visitors from proceeding to the site of St Thomas 's shrine because their passage disturbed the troupe .
24 The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could .
25 Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] …
26 But she was trotting off to the churchyard to clean the stone the other day .
27 With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss .
28 Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling .
29 In 1935 she was sold on to the ironstone industry in the Cranford area and ended her working life at Byfield in 1963 — ironically not very far from the GCR .
30 One morning as she was rushing back to the changing rooms one of the models slipped and twisted her ankle .
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