Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |
| 2 | She is also lobbying for relief for nurseries from the uniform business rate , in the same way as educational establishments ; she wants them to be zero-rated for VAT purposes and provided with loans for safety improvements and training . |
| 3 | She wants me to be happy . |
| 4 | She has nothing to be envious of , if only she knew , Belinda thought wearily . |
| 5 | So she has plenty to be pleased about — in addition to being the beautiful butt of the TV men 's admiring jokes . |
| 6 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |
| 7 | When she touched the stone she found it to be sticky . |
| 8 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 9 | She took from my coat a hair which was not there , and she told me to be careful . |
| 10 | He told May , and she told me to be careful . |
| 11 | She told herself to be calm . |
| 12 | She told herself to be sensible , and concentrate on the food and the others around the table , but all the same she could feel a soft , trembling excitement building inside her . |
| 13 | She tempered her approach to each medium like a professional : for newspaper journalists she spoke slowly in short , simple generalities ; on television she smiled a lot and complimented her opponents on the intelligence of their remarks ; on radio she allowed herself to be profound , even vulnerable . |
| 14 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
| 15 | Silently she cursed herself for being such a damned fool . |
| 16 | She needed him to be ready to make some sort of commitment to her . |
| 17 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 18 | She did not know how to address Henrietta , she felt the fault her own , she knew herself to be disadvantaged . |
| 19 | We wonder if she has ever heard of chronic paranoid schizophrenia , and she tells us to be quiet . |
| 20 | So far this is normal and to be expected , but if Claire is told often enough how good she is when she feels herself to be bad , or if Henry is constantly reminded of his vicious streak when he is aware of other , ignored qualities in himself , then both Claire and Henry are likely to become confused as to their own self-images . |
| 21 | she expects you to be busy then all next week does n't she ? |
| 22 | She liked everybody to be busy at something . |
| 23 | She liked him to be masterful . |
| 24 | At others , she despised herself for being selfish , even wicked , for not being able to help people who needed her support so much . |
| 25 | Jay demanded , her voice ugly , feeling so far away she could lose no more , the angrier she grew the further Lucy went ; but when she forced herself to be quiet and good , Lucy still kept her distance . |
| 26 | She forced herself to be cheerful . |
| 27 | She wanted me to be independent and strong , the ‘ successful ’ person I 'd been before having children , so that she could be free to do this . |
| 28 | She wanted him to be safe , not to be in trouble ; she wanted him to finish this book . |
| 29 | She wanted it to be friendly and relaxed as before , she wanted to laugh and joke with him , but it was out of the question now . |
| 30 | She could not be certain that she wanted it to be true . |