Example sentences of "she to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother said it was all nerves , but what had she to be nervy about ? |
| 2 | Was she to be next in the circle ? |
| 3 | It made her feel that he wanted her to be grateful to him for marrying her . |
| 4 | Imagining her to be delicate , he was anxious for her not to strain her voice . |
| 5 | Everyone has a right to expect her to be predictable ( however trying things are ) and she ought to be worried and apologetic if she behaves strangely . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They wanted her to be keen , did n't they ? |
| 8 | There was no need for her to be present . |
| 9 | Duty required her to be present on the Sunday for the arrival of the Princess . |
| 10 | She knew Jonas expected her to be present , but , in the circumstances , she felt it might be best to keep a low profile and retire early . |
| 11 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
| 12 | So And o , also when it 's the day before I , I 'm working I 'm very conscience that I do n't want her to be upset in the morning , same with Christopher I do n't want any upsets in the morning . |
| 13 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's unlike her to be late . ’ |
| 15 | So I mean , I 'm not gon na point the questions at anyone in particular , I 'm just like have them answered , but I might just say to is this normal for her to be late . |
| 16 | He guessed her to be worrying about money . |
| 17 | Ann had a good brain , but Megan had it in her to be brilliant . |
| 18 | Her parts often require her to be prim and snooty but she says she is nothing like that in reality . |
| 19 | I was hardly someone for her to be proud of , was I ? |
| 20 | He almost made it sound as if this was something that he 'd expect her to be proud of . |
| 21 | By the time she had fetched her second cup of tea , Mrs. Mounce was on to their relations with their bank manager , and Tessa kicked off her shoes and tucked her legs up beneath her to be companionable . |
| 22 | If only she and Michael had more time together , time for her feelings to rise close enough to the surface for her to be sure of what they were . |
| 23 | By sheer political and economic weight , she would be able to exert sufficient influence on countries economically dependent on her to be sure of dominating majority voting , or by refusing to accept certain policies . |
| 24 | Before long he recognised Eva 's ability and invited her to be vice president . |
| 25 | Her sister Jane had asked her to be chief bridesmaid at her wedding to Robert Fellowes , the son-of the Queen 's land agent at Sandringham and now her private secretary , which was held in the Guards Chapel in April 1978 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He screams back at her to be still . |
| 28 | Claudia was so outraged that she had the greatest difficulty in keeping the rage she felt enough under control for her to be coherent . |
| 29 | The sergeant had expected her to be taller , instead of a good nine inches shorter than Blanche . |
| 30 | She moved into North Yorkshire a few weeks ago from Mulhous Zoo in France with everyone believing her to be one of only eight Lears Macaws in captivity anywhere . |