Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 2 | Yeah she 's Katie she bought what were her chances of re-ordering it you know |
| 3 | Ah she 's Lyn she 's er got it all wrong I think , she thinks she wins men 's affections like by sleeping with them all . |
| 4 | There are clothes she must have kept for going home , letters and books that have been collected while she was there . |
| 5 | Even the most loving woman is sometimes angry and feels passionately that there are things she lacks which she is entitled to have . |
| 6 | And you say there are rooms she has n't been in , but how do you know ? |
| 7 | It was considered so repulsive by Queen Victoria that there are suggestions she actually allowed it to be stolen . |
| 8 | There were secrets she would prefer to keep to herself . |
| 9 | She still wanted to look as she did in waking life , but there were improvements she could make . |
| 10 | Yes , there were things she would never experience in life , special things which a man and woman in love might enjoy ; she would never carry Tyler 's child again , nor would the two of them grow old together , content in each other 's love . |
| 11 | Besides , there were things she had to do . |
| 12 | There were things she had not told them . |
| 13 | She wanted Roman 's arms around her , she wanted to feel him againt her without the barrier of clothes , but there were things she had to say before she could allow that to happen . |
| 14 | She knew there were things she should be trying to sort out in her life , but she did n't want to face up to certain ideas that lurked at the back of her mind . |
| 15 | It was difficult not knowing if we 'd be able to give Eleanor everything we wanted to give her and knowing there were things she needed that we could n't afford . |
| 16 | There were questions she needed to ask Butler , but not yet , not now and not here . |
| 17 | Whoever 's responsibility she is , she is not yours . ’ |
| 18 | Oh , there 's kind she 's been ! |
| 19 | ‘ Then if there 's time she wants a ‘ Guess the Weight ’ cake making as well — I 've got to make it look as if it weighs five pounds when it really weighs ten . ’ |
| 20 | I wa I usually and then lock it and th and when there was visitors she opened up and she left the front door wide open and in there rummaging around ! |
| 21 | If there was aggro she could handle it . |
| 22 | And she said erm where they have their big discos in the universities er you know , about two thousand five hundred of them come round of course they 've got fire alarm systems there , then she said you get the underground so called Mafia , whatever you like to call them she said , they are chaps she said in their thirties , and forties , arrive in shiny big white and red Porsches this that and the other and deliberately , cos they 're club owners |
| 23 | First of all they say that if she thinks that they 're waxworks she should pay , and then they say that if she thinks that they are real , she should be talking to them . |
| 24 | They seemed to her unearthly ; a new combination of loss , pain and fear : they were howls she would have made herself only half-an-hour before , if she had known how . |
| 25 | She was late arriving at the restaurant where she had arranged to meet her friends , but they were women she had known since university days and were busy catching up on everyone else 's news . |
| 26 | She wanted to tell him that she loved him , but they were words she had never spoken to anyone . |
| 27 | ‘ Among them were people she had met on her earlier visit . |
| 28 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |
| 29 | Whether it were coat she had on or not |
| 30 | If it 's pasta she comes here and asks us to cook it for her . |