Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] she [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some poems , especially her essays , suggest that she is also looking toward a wider audience , in the vast majority of poems she speaks specifically to some woman she knows . |
| 2 | A herd of deer on the African plains may feed undisturbed when a lioness walks among them , if they perceive that she is only out for a stroll . |
| 3 | An underlying reluctance to accept change or try out new activities is so well hidden and overcome that she is extremely optimistic and positive when taking decisions and initiating projects . |
| 4 | Confirm that she 's right by her Cedar Grove . |
| 5 | ‘ I just need to see her , confirm that she 's still alive . ’ |
| 6 | My mother I can hardly see save as she is now while I am writing . |
| 7 | ‘ Even though you know that she is not coming back , it does n't stop you missing her every day . ’ |
| 8 | Nell dies in mid-winter , far from home ; but we all know that she is homeward bound and will see another and better spring : |
| 9 | But when you know that she 's safely tucked up in bed , you come out with a towel around you . |
| 10 | Well Pauline 's a devil for punishment I would say , she 's got both lads at school now you know and she 's home all day and she is n't one for sitting around Pauline |
| 11 | but I know you know if she 's there you 're gon na have a good time . |
| 12 | However , twice now I have heard the character state that she is not a nurse but just a care assistant . |
| 13 | Some critics feel that she is either Emma returned from the grave , or a supernatural vision ; though both these interpretations make some sense , I feel that the most obvious possibility is the true one . |
| 14 | I think one of my difficulties with Adam Bede is that she begins to lose interest a little bit in the figure of the beautiful , but not actually very bright , village girl , whose seduction is an important part of the story , and by the end of the book we feel that she 's actually bored with Hettie , is n't really concerned any longer to explore Hettie 's own sufferings as the other woman who has been badly treated by the rascally gentleman . |
| 15 | Some of Mrs Thatcher 's critics claim that she is not a Conservative at all , at least not in the paternalist tradition of Disraeli and One Nation Conservatism . |
| 16 | I doubt that she is much like the real Gertrude Lawrence but she is decidedly a class act . |
| 17 | any problems , any problems the council for er two years , there are and I think that she 's actually provided a very significant contributions to the council . |
| 18 | Wonder if she 's there , take over from . |
| 19 | Sister said I could come in my coffee break to say hello to her and see that she 's all right . ’ |
| 20 | There is , of course , nothing wrong with trying to look your best , but for the born-again Weldon to refuse to see anyone unless she spent half the day in the hairdressers and then proclaim that she 's only doing it to further her career ( oh , please ) smacks of hypocrisy of the very highest order . |
| 21 | I 'll have words with Sharon on Monday and er , oh I ca n't , yes I can on Monday I 'm having my hair cut later , but I can come up about nine o'clock and see if she 's here . |
| 22 | See if she 's in and |
| 23 | but er , I do n't know how he got out yesterday and I 've never , never know him parked down the road , not at all , anyway we got , I got home and erm , I said to Bev you know , right go and phone Lesley see if she 's in and then I did a bit of housework and then the phone rang , ooh , we was aiming to go out at one and that must of been ten to one , and it was Liz |