Example sentences of "she be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , come up to The Towers for the afternoon ( who had she been talking to ? ) . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 3 | Mrs Gray sounded as though she were trying to be fair . |
| 4 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | she were talking to herself in the end ! |
| 9 | When she were talking to us Aunty Mary you could hear some Yorkshire accent . |
| 10 | I mean the if she were going to be next week or something , she 'll maybe want to organize most of it herself . |
| 11 | She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part . |
| 12 | She 's calling to a little dog which is running after summat with his tail wagging like mad . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's writing to Father , ’ thought Bobbie . |
| 14 | Now she 's training to be a teacher . |
| 15 | She 's goin' to no Catholic Mass as long as she 's under my care . |
| 16 | She 's moving to Thorne or summat . |
| 17 | she 's chuntering on to her granddad and she 's pointing to the brussel sprouts you know in the garden |
| 18 | And she 's , that was tonight she said she 's hoping to be home Thursday . |
| 19 | She 's beginning to be quite a young woman . |
| 20 | You know , and I feel , I do feel very angry , I mean th th the family that she 's referring to who ca n't , who have difficulty hav getting transport for Sunday morning , they 're not parishioners , but are actually in the parish , and they know perfectly well that if they ask they will get transport , and indeed in the past they have asked , and they have got transport . |
| 21 | She even talks about ‘ the lower orders ’ when she 's referring to her servants . |
| 22 | Now the others she 's referring to there must be God , but she can not immediately go on and so bluntly say , in the very next line anyway , you know , it was only the serpent who showed it to me , God is going to be envious of me . |
| 23 | Whether she is consciously twisting logic , or just , poor girl , confused , I 'm not sure , but at the end it 's quite clear ‘ So dear I love them that with him all deaths I could endure , without him live no life ’ , that she 's got into a world of fantasy because the one thing that is of course not in question is that Adam should die and that she should live on , which appears to be what she 's referring to here . |
| 24 | ‘ You realize she 's trying to be unbearable so that your husband sees they get a move on with her house ? ’ |
| 25 | She 's trying to if while you 're on your feet there 's two albums over there . |
| 26 | yeah , she maybe does , but I think she 's trying to , to try and promote the fact that aids patients are harmless , because a lot of aids patients are very isolated , people do n't want to know them , they think you can catch it through shaking hands , drinking out the same cup and all that , and I think she 's trying to prove that look I 'm alright , so should you be , but she does go a bit over the top |
| 27 | She 's trying to be very nice and she 's really fuming Have you er finished with your tea ? |
| 28 | She 's She 's trying to , she 's try she 's trying to say something . |
| 29 | Yes , she 's trying to be nosy . |
| 30 | Because she could 've phoned , alright , you 're not still going or whatever she 's trying to excuses she ca n't erm skate , well half the people ca n't skate , what you talking about , but oh I just do n't understand . |