Example sentences of "she [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had n't she been lost to him before even he had seen her . |
| 2 | The birthday party was of a kind which Cecilia would have wondered at , had she been invited to it , for although a few of Bienvida 's classmates were present in its early stages , by seven it had become a celebration for the grown-ups . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , come up to The Towers for the afternoon ( who had she been talking to ? ) . |
| 4 | Had she been married to the Prince ? |
| 5 | ‘ Leithia Everett here , ’ Leith announced formally , and without pausing to let the secretary get a word in , had she been going to , ‘ Would you give Mr Massingham my apologies , please ? |
| 6 | DESPITE the Ministry of Defence 's ( MoD ) statement that no more check-flights would be undertaken on Vulcan B.2 XH558 — enabling the flightcrew to stay current should the decision to ground her be reversed , or she be flown to her next owner ( FP November , p26 ) — the mighty Vulcan flew again from Waddington , Lincs , in October and was due to fly again as this issue went on sale . |
| 7 | On no account would she be sent to the Avenue Foch . |
| 8 | If Vitor reported her might she be taken to court and fined ? |
| 9 | By the time she had closed her room door behind her , though , while there was still some part of her that did n't want to be attracted to him some other part of her was arguing , Why should n't she be attracted to him ? |
| 10 | Nor can she be expected to . |
| 11 | Mrs Gray sounded as though she were trying to be fair . |
| 12 | Just for a moment she felt paralysed , as though she were bolted to her seat . |
| 13 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
| 14 | She dreaded being immobile and physically dependent , and she certainly felt as if heavy weights were attached to her feet and her legs ; she felt as helpless as if she were buried to her neck in quicksand . |
| 15 | ‘ But if I tell you , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said , as though she were talking to an idiot , ‘ I 'm putting Liam 's life in worse danger . |
| 16 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
| 17 | It sounded as though she were talking to someone she knew well , or at least had dealt with previously , because she called her interlocutor ‘ Tonio ’ and smiled continuously as though engaged in invisible wooing and sometimes she laughed . |
| 18 | she were talking to herself in the end ! |
| 19 | When she were talking to us Aunty Mary you could hear some Yorkshire accent . |
| 20 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 21 | I mean the if she were going to be next week or something , she 'll maybe want to organize most of it herself . |
| 22 | She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part . |
| 23 | She 's calling to a little dog which is running after summat with his tail wagging like mad . |
| 24 | Your wife 's very tired — she 's bound to be weak , after losing so much blood — but you can see her for a few minutes . ’ |
| 25 | You say you do n't want Mo to be hurt , but she 's bound to be if this goes on . ’ |
| 26 | But she 's bound to be rather boring , so they wo n't want to stay all that long . ’ |
| 27 | She 's bound to be fussing with something or other when we arrive , and we 'll be twiddling our thumbs for twenty minutes before she condescends to appear . ’ |
| 28 | We do n't want Americans to think we are n't hospitable , and besides , she 's bound to be lying there thinking of sex , poor little thing , and it 'll be all wet and hairy , and so deliciously — ’ |
| 29 | She 's bound to be interested . |
| 30 | She 's bound to be very worried about you . ’ |