Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pers pn] be her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she often maintained that it was her own choice not to attend , she told an American interviewer , I would love to go to board meetings where he [ Bernard ] is chairman but I 'm not invited . |
| 2 | She joked that it was her favourite occupation . |
| 3 | She did n't think that it was her place to do so nor did she want to appear to be a burden to the man she loved . |
| 4 | The critics and defeated rivals of Anca Petrescu in the competition for the Comrade 's patronage insist that it was her idea to resolve the question of the approach road to the Civic Centre by the most dramatic and destructive means . |
| 5 | Suddenly Shelley could n't see , and she realised that it was her tears that had blinded her . |
| 6 | Previously , she would have been driven by my father , but she announced that it was her intention to travel , alone , by train . |
| 7 | ‘ The police and ambulance arrived on the scene very rapidly and the other driver admitted that it was her fault . |
| 8 | She had obviously not noticed that it was her own number . |
| 9 | She is the daughter of an English mother and a Pakistani father , who says that it is her Asian looks which are her greatest asset . |
| 10 | Instead of simply going to bed , she insisted on returning , believing that it was her duty to try and fulfil her obligations . |
| 11 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 12 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 13 | Inevitably there was a lot of sycophantic non sense around her too.Thus when she made a blood donation , the director of the clinic declared that the room would remain a shrine for her and everyone who now had a transfusion would insist that it was her divine blood that flowed and miraculously and potently into his veins . |
| 14 | Neither owned any property , but from the fact that Elizabeth 's assessment was reduced to £30 for the second instalment of the subsidy in 1525 , while Thomas and Malyn were now taxed on 20 marks apiece , it is logical to deduce that they were her children , lately come of age . |
| 15 | . This reporter 's saying that it 's her mother 's , yo , you 'll see ! she married . |
| 16 | When Mussolini took over in Italy , Anna decided that it was her duty to make her protest on Italian soil as an Italian citizen ( a not too vulnerable one for the time being , but she tried her best ) . |
| 17 | I understand that you are her executor . ’ |
| 18 | Appreciating that it was her notoriety , as the ex-mistress of the Prince of Wales , that was attracting audiences , Lillie soon founded her own company . |
| 19 | Breeze saw that they were her favourite kind , and remembered then that this had always been a little ritual — chocolates on the first night of the holidays . |
| 20 | It is , emerges that they are her cousins and that Jane has inherited money from an uncle . |
| 21 | ‘ For nothing , David , ’ said Julia , knowing that it was her fault and not his that they had got so near the brink . |
| 22 | It was just a place where she had been left , and as she grew out of infancy she knew that it was her mother who had left her there . |
| 23 | She also knew that it was her priority to get her father , physically impaired since his stroke , down the aisle . |
| 24 | Of course , having always possessed an interest in astrology , she knew that it was her Arien opposition that made her react so whenever she was under threat . |
| 25 | Her mother had once remarked that it was her opinion that Harry had actually caused Nathan 's idiocy in a fit of temper soon after he was born , and through whispered gossip over the years she had guessed that Tristram had become the focus of conflict between his parents and that he had found it increasingly necessary to defend both Nathan and his mother against his father 's violent outbursts of temper . |
| 26 | He wondered how he had found sufficient courage to ask her to the Edwardian Ball , and then remembered that it was her air of calm dignity which had made him anxious to take her to impress his parents . |
| 27 | She seemed to think that it was her own child and showed signs of distress when Carrie took the baby from her . |
| 28 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 29 | She was elected , in part , on a manifesto which said that it was her intention to take Whitehall off the backs of the town halls . |
| 30 | Training to be a teacher and with a wisdom that belied her years , she explained that it was her half-brother who was now living in Mainz and had suggested that Erich ( the Dusseldorfer ) travel down to Tonga to look for a wife . |