Example sentences of "that it be she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her stomach lurching in sympathy with the plane dropping down fast towards Bangkok convinces her dully that it 's she who 's done it : left England , friends , comrades , ways of seeing , the easy labels of self-definition . |
| 2 | But I am prepared to accept that her delusions of grandeur are a form of psychosis connected with ageing and that her refusal to consider retirement springs from an awareness that it is she , not the country , who is in danger of falling to bits is she desists from hyper-activity . |
| 3 | Before she can eat , Snow White assumes the authorial voice , insisting that the other characters are her inventions , and that it is she who has always held the real power . |
| 4 | He saw two eyes and then the cloak was thrown away from the face and he could see that it was her , blue-lipped with cold , reaching for him . |
| 5 | ‘ Then you knew all along that it was her , ’ she said accusingly . |
| 6 | And erm and she kept doing this for ages and erm she was , she was sta starting to get worried because people might believe , find out that it was her and so after she killed a cow , she took out all of i , all it 's insides and hid in it and no one ever found her ! |
| 7 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 8 | She felt as she lay there that it was she who had done wrong . |
| 9 | I could see that Estella was still proud , and I knew that it was she who made me feel ashamed of home , and Joe , but I also knew that I could never stop loving her . |
| 10 | It was odd , she thought , that it was she who could cry . |
| 11 | But setting her misgivings about Tommaso himself aside , Caterina decided that she had been quite wrong to think that it was she who had caught his attention . |
| 12 | That it was she , and talking to Henry Clerval , I now had no doubt . |
| 13 | Joanna 's startled face jolted Isabel into the realisation that it was she who had spoken , not the reeve . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was as well that it was she and not her sister who was here , she thought at one point — and then immediately realised how ridiculous that thought was . |