Example sentences of "[verb] she to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was arranging to have an abortion when her father found out , and told her if she went through with this , he would no longer consider her to be part of his family . |
| 2 | She is very good at her studies and we want her to be a teacher . |
| 3 | I want her to be independent . |
| 4 | I want her to be somebody . ’ |
| 5 | Do n't put your daughter on the stage , Mrs Worthington , send her to be trained as a computer programmer . |
| 6 | In these circumstances , as we were agreed that we had power to do so , we made an emergency order enabling her to be taken to and treated at a specialist hospital in London , notwithstanding the lack of consent on her part . |
| 7 | Before long he recognised Eva 's ability and invited her to be vice president . |
| 8 | neighbour of the Gattleton 's in Clapham , south-west London , whose formidable talent for ‘ scandal and sarcasm ’ causes her to be ‘ courted , and flattered , and caressed , and invited ’ by all her neighbours . |
| 9 | Instead , she argues for a socialization theory which sees the individual as ‘ a function of what people around her expect her to be , and what the over-all situation in which she is acting implies that she is ’ ( 1973 : 395 ) . |
| 10 | If I expect her to be startled , I am disappointed . |
| 11 | We did everything we could to encourage her to be pleased with being brown . |
| 12 | He had expected her to be sitting in the little ticket office with her friend Maureen , but instead he found the office locked and in darkness and the entire frontage of the cinema deserted . |
| 13 | They have expected her to be super-wife , good in bed , a wonderful mother , an efficient housekeeper , a co-counsellor , and an earner of income . |
| 14 | Anthony had always known that she loved Julia , but after the things Comfort had said at Christmas he had not expected her to be thrown into quite such terror . |
| 15 | Fergus looked up , because for all Dierdriu 's hubris , he had not expected her to be so suddenly direct . |
| 16 | The sergeant had expected her to be taller , instead of a good nine inches shorter than Blanche . |
| 17 | Underneath he 'd expected her to be hard and dry , but she was very soft and moist . |
| 18 | The Herald spoke to Patricia Routledge and found her to be keen to return to the Yvonne Arnaud , where the audiences recently warmed to her in Alan Bennett 's Talking Heads . |
| 19 | When interviewing Margaret , the therapist found her to be moderately depressed , but to an extent in keeping with her problems . |
| 20 | Miss T. was then examined by the obstetrics registrar who found her to be in a distressed condition with respiratory pain and contractions . |
| 21 | BELVILLE : I found her to be a coquette , an told her so and she is offended . |
| 22 | At first he wants nothing more than a quick lay with a pretty maid , then wants her to be his mistress , then is able to admit to himself that he loves her , but the idea of marriage across the social barrier is impossible for him . |
| 23 | If she has lost her partner to another woman , it will be assumed that she must be more beautiful , more clever , more sexy : in fact she wants her to be . |
| 24 | Timing is of the essence , which is why so many youthful romances go awry ; she is just getting somewhere with her career but he has already arrived and wants her to be there for him , or vice versa . |
| 25 | He wants her to be the top model in the world . |
| 26 | But one of them wants my daughter to die , and one wants her to be free . ’ |
| 27 | Nevertheless , one would not have wished her to be miserable . |
| 28 | If Nicky Scott Wilson wanted to keep his life secret , that was fine by her ; but he need n't expect her to be a part of it , in that case . |
| 29 | Just tell us when she 's going , what 's going to happen to her , and how long we can expect her to be there . ’ |
| 30 | I could not expect her to be bridesmaid . |