Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] that she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the more I look at her the more convinced I am that she resembles one of the Yorkies . |
| 2 | So deep in thought had she been that she reached her destination before she 'd made any definite plans about how to proceed . |
| 3 | So single-minded had she been that she 'd forgotten the presence of Mike and this man . |
| 4 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 5 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 6 | The first thing we talked about was how wearing the camisole top had made her feel self-conscious , and how glad she was that she had put a shirt over it . |
| 7 | I was too far away to observe what colour Enid Starkie 's eyes were ; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot , walked like a scrum-half , and had an atrocious French accent . |
| 8 | What had startled him was that she had a sister , Sandra Riverton , who had worked for INCUBUS in Suffolk . |
| 9 | And her only reason for distrusting him was that she distrusted Alexander , a feeling almost certainly shared by the majority of people who had ever met him . |
| 10 | The point about her was that she had a trick which worked and , unlike many politicians , She Was Not Found Out . |
| 11 | The appropriate procedures for investigation were followed and the opinion of the consultant paediatrician who examined her was that she had been chronically abused sexually . |
| 12 | What I liked about her was that she charged less in the 6ds than she did in the 1/3s : she had a sliding scale . |
| 13 | With stress on ‘ comes ’ , could it be that she gets a lift back ? |
| 14 | Could it be that she had retraced her steps , worked out that the house was Littlecote and the perpetrator of this heinous crime was Darrel ? |
| 15 | Could n't it be that she had needed to loathe him so that she could smother the awakening of her real feelings for him ? |
| 16 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 17 | I 'll ask Carolyn what it is that she uses on hers because hers gets rid of the weeds as well . |
| 18 | And the beauty of it is that she embodies this core value of intimacy in her music better than anyone else who 's arrived on the scene in years . |
| 19 | For certain it is that she did leave your enclave with my men , and with them took the road to Ramsey . |
| 20 | When she opens her eyes , I do n't know what it is that she sees . |
| 21 | Indeed , why it was that she felt so breathless now . |
| 22 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 23 | She was sitting on the bed with her album — that sparsely-peopled record of whatever it was that she 'd left behind and she was n't leafing through it but hugging it close , as if it was a physical source of comfort to her when times were at their lowest . |
| 24 | She could n't quite remember when it was that she 'd realized Georg took it for granted they 'd get married as soon as she was old enough . |
| 25 | The little jokes , the smiles , the anecdotes about his childhood , about his city , had been nothing but clever prelude to her seduction but the worst of it was that she 'd been so damnably easy to seduce . |
| 26 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 27 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 28 | Though what it was that she knew , she could not at that moment have said . |
| 29 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |
| 30 | Let Lucy articulate , lay herself on whatever uncomfortable line it was that she had elected to draw . |