Example sentences of "she [vb past] to be [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She decided to be touristy and go and buy souvenirs . |
| 2 | She had her faults — she needed to be push-started and she had lost gears the way old people lose teeth — but it was difficult not to love her . |
| 3 | She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere . |
| 4 | For them no one else in the programme existed — except one And since that happened to be another woman , she had to be remarkable and she certainly was . |
| 5 | She had to be careful and clever . |
| 6 | She had to be calm and distant just once more . |
| 7 | Typically , Oliver said that after the marriage Gill ought to call herself Mrs Gillian Wyatt-or-Hughes , that is if she wanted to be logical and grammatical and commonsensical and diplomatic and cumbersome . |
| 8 | She wanted to be as mature and sensible as Rachel was , she wanted to be reassuring and maternal and all she could do was cling to Maggie and sob and sob . |
| 9 | She refused to be cowardly and hang her head . |