Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 2 | Apart from a year at Westfield College she has been on the staff of the Department of French at Reading University since 1962 , progressing from Tutorial Assistant to a personal chair as Professor of French . |
| 3 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 4 | The one battle she lost was over the dog , Hector . |
| 5 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 6 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 7 | The noise she made was like a cry from hell , and James knew her suffering had turned this place into hell itself . |
| 8 | Of course she had been in love , for years and years , and perhaps , she sometimes wondered , that experience had spoiled her . |
| 9 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 10 | The tousled girl in front of me , she was reading a buxom magazine : its text was in French , I think , but even I could tell that the article she scanned was about fellatio technique — blowjob knowhow . |
| 11 | Any conference she 'd been to , everyone wound up in her room long after midnight , playing poker and spouting Bacardi bullshit , wine-bottle wisdom . |
| 12 | There had obviously been something wrong with the Cashman ménage for some time — why else would Cindy Hill have lied about her whereabouts , telling her husband she had been in Wales when she had really been in a London nightclub ? |
| 13 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 14 | One minute she had been on her hands and knees scrubbing and the next she was being wined and dined by the owner of the largest store in town . |
| 15 | She had always believed there would be someone special — for a while she had been under the illusion that that someone was Marcus . |
| 16 | For a while she had been in paradise ; now it was over . |
| 17 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 18 | Abruptly , and with a habit she had been on the way to forgetting he had , Ven Gajdusek cut her off again . |
| 19 | Eva is married to a preacher and the tale she tells is of their Baptist congregation whose exuberant spiritual style of worship was banned by the colonial Government in 1917 . |
| 20 | She got a very nice reference from the surgeon she had been with and so is most grateful to me for organising it . |
| 21 | For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ? |
| 22 | That someone she would never have ; the only man she wanted was beyond her reach and she would n't , could n't accept second best , though that was what she would have to do unless she wanted to walk alone forever . |
| 23 | The oddest call she had was from Teesside airport , where one was stuck up a drainpipe making squeaking noises . |
| 24 | The turquoise dress she wore was of the kind of stretch cotton which showed up any figure fault and which in this instance merely demonstrated the perfection of her body . |
| 25 | Vicki is praying that the rescue ship she knows is on its way will arrive in time to save them all . |
| 26 | The last thing in the world she needed was to be attracted to the man who had been Elise 's lover — even if he were n't already engaged in a live-in relationship with another woman ! |
| 27 | Because , it occurred to her with heart-stopping suddenness , the last thing in the world she wanted was to be around when Rohan Saint Yves married Antoinette — or anyone else . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , its been a strain — I did n't mind at first because she 'd stay down at her flat for short periods of time , but obviously as her memory 's got worse she does n't realise that she 's got a flat , and the only thing she knows is in here , and this is the only place she wants to be — here . |
| 29 | ‘ She knew if she had attended one of the public services she would have been the centre of attention and the last thing she wanted was to be photographed as the woman alone . |
| 30 | The last thing she wanted was to be a pawn between the two of them , and was n't that just what Rune had made her by drawing deliberate attention to himself on the stage before making an exhibition of both of them ? |