Example sentences of "of what she [vb past] be " in BNC.
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1 | Benny could see her mother sitting there stretching her hand out full of what she had been full of for months now : the huge advantages of being able to come home every night by bus . |
2 | She wondered how much of what she had been born with was left . |
3 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
4 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
5 | Jenna whispered the words , her eyes never leaving the image of what she had been long ago . |
6 | Then , suddenly , just as Joanna was nodding a dubious assent , the full force of what she had been told hit her like a thunderbolt . |
7 | Most of what she said was muted , but three words rang out clearly . |
8 | Not even a shuttered window was to be seen , just the barred doors and high , featureless walls of what she guessed were mainly warehouses . |