Example sentences of "[subord] she [modal v] [vb infin] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she does not like , of course , is a stiff cross-wind on a hard runway — vintage aeroplanes were n't designed to fly in such a restricted manner — so she will need to be treated with respect , both by her pilots and the relevant ATC facilities , should such a set of circumstances be encountered . |
| 2 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 3 | He had to tell the story umpteen times , getting a little further into the tale each time , whereupon she 'd ask to be taken from the beginning again . |
| 4 | A GIRL in Ilford was asked if she would like to be a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 5 | He asks a young girl if she would like to be Alice in Wonderland . |
| 6 | Although in the event the old lady died first , towards the end it looked as if she would need to be taken in by one of her descendants and this caused distinct tension : ‘ we had least room and everything — and least money ’ , but ‘ there was a bit of squabbling in family . |
| 7 | I want to ask Miss Everdene if she 'd like to be married . ’ |
| 8 | And , quite apart from demonstrating maturity by dismissing the incident and behaving normally , if she could manage to be polite to this man there was just a chance she might discover some clues to his plans for her family 's business . |
| 9 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 10 | Of Nick , because she would like to be sitting there , she was n't too big . |
| 11 | In the rickshaw on the way back from that morning 's tolly I asked Vimla whether she would like to be reborn as a hijra in her next life . |
| 12 | Her arms enclosed him just as she would wish to be clasped and comforted . |