Example sentences of "she [vb past] to [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And that was how she came to be at the reception ? ’ |
| 2 | Every time she seemed to be on the verge of making some sort of breakthrough , new questions came up . |
| 3 | She seemed to be in a hurry , striding quickly along with her hands tucked in her large flapping sleeves , boots kicking up dust . |
| 4 | Lesley-Jane Decker had been on stage at the time of the shooting , so , unless she had brought in a hired killer , she seemed to be in the clear . |
| 5 | Hugh was nearest to her , and if she arranged to be on the side of his wounded arm she thought it would be easy to get away . |
| 6 | She rose quickly and lit the candles , all six of them which was wasteful , but she needed to be in the light for the shadows in the corners frightened her . |
| 7 | By the time she entered the building and hurried across to Occupational Health she was several minutes later than she liked to be in the mornings . |
| 8 | In light of the fact that she appeared to be on the hunt , and looked like a blonde bombshell , exactly what was the man asking her ? |
| 9 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I had this thing in my mind that she had to be in a place where I could get to her and she would be well looked after . ’ |
| 11 | Get some movement out there we had a young , a young lady who er she name and she 's up front in the cabinet you know every opportunity she had she was looking for round the room , but not sort of in the round the outside all the time and it 's just that she wanted to be with a group of people all the time . |
| 12 | Mary smiled but shook her head : she wanted to be under no obligation . |
| 13 | She wanted to be in the band so bad she said ‘ I 'll play drums ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ She wanted to be in the school football team , ’ said her friend Jennifer McKeown , also 11 . |
| 15 | ‘ She wanted to be in the land of make-believe as often and as long as possible … dealing with people and things according to imagination 's formulas , ’ her son Vivian said of her . |
| 16 | She wanted to be like a star . |