Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ought to demand to be taken back to London . |
| 2 | I love Ma , but she must expect to be unhappy because she 's reached that time of life . |
| 3 | It 's only natural she should want to be with kids her own age . ’ |
| 4 | And while she knew she should request to be put down , she was enjoying the feel of being held too much to utter the words . |
| 5 | A mother may set out some crayons and paper or plasticine while she gets on with the ironing but she should expect to be interrupted and asked for help . |
| 6 | If a DTI Education and Enterprise Adviser is in post locally , he or she should prove to be an invaluable partner in making Compact work . |
| 7 | She was simply reminding Jaq of how she might continue to be useful . |
| 8 | She thought it outrageous that he should even think she might want to be friends in the circumstances . |
| 9 | " I just think that she might prove to be somewhat difficult to dispose of … oh , do n't look so surprised . |
| 10 | I should save the trip until the weekend , when we can all go , besides , she 'll be bored with all your old historical studies , she 'll want to be with other people of her own age , other Americans , perhaps — I mean , there are plenty of them about the place , goodness knows , and that shirt should really go in the wash straight away . ’ |
| 11 | Admittedly Dawn has been too outspoken , and she 'll have to be told to keep her feelings to herself , just as I do . |
| 12 | But the injury ca n't be mended and vets say she 'll have to be put down . |
| 13 | I expect she 'll try to be . ’ |
| 14 | And , quite apart from demonstrating maturity by dismissing the incident and behaving normally , if she could manage to be polite to this man there was just a chance she might discover some clues to his plans for her family 's business . |
| 15 | There , she could pretend to be the housewife she was n't , with the same concerns as Jimmy Young 's daytime audience . |
| 16 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
| 17 | She could pretend to be Celia , say she was unable to visit . |
| 18 | With far more reason than Harold Wilson in 1964 , she could claim to be running ( mutatis mutandis ) a Bolshevik revolution with a Tsarist Cabinet . |
| 19 | She was a smartly dressed woman , different from the other women in our district , but then she could afford to be because they were very comfortably off . |
| 20 | The doctor was paying her the ten shillings , she could afford to be friendly . |
| 21 | Dora , naturally , was in good spirits and with Fortune on her side she could afford to be magnanimous . |
| 22 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 23 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 24 | She 'd want to be like him . |
| 25 | If he walked in or the girl came to clean the grate , she 'd pretend to be talking to a tradesman : ‘ It really was more fat than lean . |
| 26 | If he called , she 'd pretend to be out , she 'd hide in an outhouse , hide in the straw in the barn until he gave up his snooping and went away . |
| 27 | She 'd like to be on hand the moment they came out of the dark room . |
| 28 | But she 'd like to be nearer eight stone . |
| 29 | I want to ask Miss Everdene if she 'd like to be married . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The other is for Rachel , Flo 's wife in South Africa , because I knew he would n't get round to doing it himself and I thought she 'd like to be able to show their little daughter a picture of her father doing something responsible and public-spirited for a change . ’ |