Example sentences of "[vb past] she [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long he recognised Eva 's ability and invited her to be vice president . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When interviewing Margaret , the therapist found her to be moderately depressed , but to an extent in keeping with her problems . |
| 4 | Miss T. was then examined by the obstetrics registrar who found her to be in a distressed condition with respiratory pain and contractions . |
| 5 | BELVILLE : I found her to be a coquette , an told her so and she is offended . |
| 6 | She was a woman , and , even if she was hardly the sophisticate Nicolo imagined her to be , at least she knew what passion was . |
| 7 | Theodora judged her to be in her early forties , though the thin face and fair , wispy hair made her look younger . |
| 8 | His patient , a girl whose age was uncertain — he judged her to be about fourteen or fifteen — was at the moment quiescent , her face as grey as the linen on which she lay , her eyes closed . |
| 9 | Theda judged her to be in the late thirties , perhaps . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , in a " matched guise " test which I administered to a class of fourteen to fifteen year-old adolescents in the speaker 's own home area , seven out of eleven black pupils judged her to be black on the basis of an extract from the story above ( see Chapter 4 for a discussion ) . |
| 11 | And then impulse caused her to be frank . |
| 12 | She knew only that today was the last she 'd spend at Wilder 's Wilderness , and the knowledge caused her to be wrapped in misery . |
| 13 | That rebellion caused her to be half inclined to scrape her hair back in a ‘ schoolmarm ’ hairstyle , and to be wearing her heavy hornrimmed spectacles when His Lordship called . |
| 14 | The island presented such a complex profile to the early European navigators that they assumed her to be separate islands — and her pluralized name remained all the way up to Indonesia 's independence when an orgy of name-changing occurred and Celebes was renamed Sulawesi , and her capital , Makassar , became Ujung Pandang . |
| 15 | It is significant that , in an age when belief in miracles , extreme saintliness and revelation were of the stuff of daily life , so many of her contemporaries believed Margery to be mentally ill ; only , probably , the superstitious , the credulous and the ignorant believed her to be a genuine mystic . |
| 16 | Six years ago , her own bewildering awareness of him , the way it had made her feel threatened , must have been obvious to him when his simple presence , a glance in her direction , the sound of his voice , had been enough to unnerve her ; but these days she answered back — and for some reason he was hell-bent on punishing her for what he believed her to be , humiliating her with constant reminders of his contempt . |
| 17 | She would not return to you because you believed her to be a fallen woman , and nothing she could say would convince you otherwise . ’ |
| 18 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 19 | He believed her to be promised to Hugh — and then there was Petula . |
| 20 | It did n't matter that she was n't in the straits he believed her to be in ; his threat was enough to chill her blood . |
| 21 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 22 | Nobody told her to be off , or lay off , or push off , or not to touch , or to be careful . |
| 23 | ‘ I told her to be here when we arrived . |
| 24 | I told her to be here ! |
| 25 | Sophie relayed the information to Mr Miller , who shrugged irritably and told her to be as quick as possible , but the traffic was heavy as she drove out of the town and all the time she was praying that the cat 's leg would not be really broken . |
| 26 | I told her to be home reasonably early but she 's not home yet . |
| 27 | The young woman in the plain suit was not intimidated by it , nor by the hand-carved plate that proclaimed her to be in the offices of Yeo , Davis and Partners . |
| 28 | She was of mature years , and he rightly guessed her to be Mrs Heatherton . |
| 29 | He guessed her to be worrying about money . |
| 30 | I guessed her to be about twenty-two or three . |