Example sentences of "she be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had she been watching for ? |
| 2 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 3 | Had n't she been lost to him before even he had seen her . |
| 4 | Has she been bleeding for a two week period ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Why , having found herself remarkably unmoved by her succession of boyfriends to date , even Jeremy 's cunning ploys and reasoned arguments , and having reached the not inconsiderable age of twenty-four , had she been consumed with that burning hunger last night ? |
| 7 | What on earth had she been thinking of ? |
| 8 | What had she been thinking of ? |
| 9 | Has she been employed by you for at least 26 weeks into the QW ? |
| 10 | Has she been employed by you into the QW for at least two years ( full-time ) or for five years ( part-time ) ? |
| 11 | Had she been seduced into conformity by the excellence of the natural history programmes and then , like other late converts he had known , sat captive to virtually every offering as if making up for lost time ? |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , come up to The Towers for the afternoon ( who had she been talking to ? ) . |
| 13 | Had she been married to the Prince ? |
| 14 | Had she been prompted by curiosity or the instincts of the good Samaritan , Theodora wondered . |
| 15 | What had she been doing on her own up there by the long barrow ? |
| 16 | And I think she 's just been erm has she been humiliated by him yet ? |
| 17 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 18 | The first time out she had seen nothing but a sea of faces , so hard had she been concentrating on what she was doing . |
| 19 | What 's she been saying about Billy Rich ? |
| 20 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 21 | Would there be something going on , or had she been superseded by the scrawny one from Holywood ? |
| 22 | Had she been used for a purpose other than the stated one ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But was there a market in Glasgow for a quality product ; should she be thinking of Edinburgh instead ? |
| 25 | ‘ What can she be thinking of ? |
| 26 | Would she be treated as an outcast . |
| 27 | If it might benefit Kirsty for him to know what had really happened between herself and Ryan , would she be justified in breaking her promise ? |
| 28 | Why should she be troubled by the mere sight of him ? |
| 29 | Neither would she be shouting about their liaison from the rooftops . |
| 30 | Her future would be devoted to her husband and children and no more would she be tempted into any indiscretions , she vowed . |