Example sentences of "what she [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julie 's language is interesting ; implied in what she said is a hard/soft dichotomy ; philosophy is seen as being less serious , less important than ‘ hard ’ theory ; she is slightly embarrassed about wanting to do something which is apparently less difficult ( and by implication more trivial ) than straightforward theory . |
| 2 | cos what she said is if she |
| 3 | Other than that , it was important that she should look interesting so that even if what she said was dull the audience would not be bored ; that the outfit should take account of the long range view — jewellery or other small items were irrelevant — and that it should draw attention to her face . |
| 4 | What she said was of interest to Edouard , but he could see that it was by way of a preamble . |
| 5 | She would then speak as if talking to herself , but what she said was aimed at me and usually struck to the core of my being , so that I was stunned into silence … |
| 6 | Yet in essence what she said was always the same . |
| 7 | Most of what she said was muted , but three words rang out clearly . |
| 8 | I was suddenly aware that what she said was true . |
| 9 | I told her that what she said was a load of bollocks , and one thing led to another and my mum told me she was n't allowing me to take Natasha with me . |
| 10 | At least , he must have known what she said was in it . |
| 11 | She spoke to the prince , she even looked at the prince , but what she said was addressed to the man who sat withdrawn at the prince 's elbow . |
| 12 | Though what she said was that you sometimes had what she called ‘ bad turns ’ . |
| 13 | She did not come back immediately and say , ‘ I do n't believe this , you 're lying , ’ but what she said was , in a very small voice , ‘ That would have to be proved . ’ |
| 14 | The body 's centre line and she equated that and what she said was in terms of the hands that people who were open and positive communicators used on average more symmetrical open palm gestures than individual or closed palm gestures non-symmetrical . |
| 15 | No , what she said was that we spent er no he said I gave a fat cheque for the caravan . |
| 16 | What she said was last time the assessor came in |
| 17 | What she said was the head was |
| 18 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 19 | What she craved was the security of marriage and was only too pleased when Charles began to take her seriously during the summer of 1980 . |
| 20 | I asked a girl of twelve what she thought was the most important thing to stress in my book ? |
| 21 | He had a habit of singing joylessly about the house , and my colleague was one day amazed to hear what she thought was ‘ Drink to me Only ’ ; she had , however , little time to be surprised at this sensuality , for more careful listening revealed that the words were all about hell-fire and damnation . |
| 22 | She was one of the youngest Brownies , but she was very honest and outspoken The Pack had soon learned that Jill never feared to speak her mind and to say what she thought was right . |
| 23 | Instead she pointed out what she thought was happening in the session and the need for all of them to look at the problems in a constructive way . |
| 24 | She did what she thought was right and in this country she said a price . |
| 25 | ‘ Hello , ’ she said , in what she thought was a friendly enough manner . |
| 26 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd like to remind you that you 're in my house , ’ Alyssia pointed out , with what she thought was unassailable logic . |
| 28 | She had stayed in the cellar for what she thought was about three days and then realised that she had n't felt the vibration of gunfire for some time , perhaps a day and a night . |
| 29 | We go to Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire now and Mrs Jennifer 's written to us er with a puzzle because she 's found what she thought was an interesting plant growing amongst a raspberry bush in her garden . |
| 30 | Shelley was n't usually violent , but she had been tested beyond what she thought was right . |