Example sentences of "she had [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 . ’
2 She had to be a passive , consenting thing , like a slave , a physical slave … .
3 He was a radical so she had to be even more radical .
4 She had to be careful and clever .
5 Her temper had worsened since the pups were born , so now she had to be kept tied up all the time in the alcove near the kitchen stove .
6 She had to be crazy .
7 It was most odd the way this woman had immediately made her feel as though she had to be conciliating .
8 She had to be taken to hospital for treatment .
9 She had the fit in the car on the way home , and she had to be taken to hospital for treatment .
10 Although weak , the baby was basically healthy , but she had to be kept in intensive care for the first few weeks .
11 She had to be strict with herself : ruthless .
12 I told her she had to be hard , tight , self-critical .
13 She had to be brave enough to finish the job , braver than she 'd ever been before , really to fulfil the Promise and the Law .
14 She had to be careful of kissing because her own mother had died of diphtheria caught by kissing one of her grandchildren .
15 She had to be for St Cecilia as I hoped she would share my love of music and would know the lullaby Mr Vinct had composed for her .
16 She had to be fed , as well as by me , with a kind of pipette , like a fountain pen filler .
17 Much to the prince 's disgust the captain of the Du Teillay refused to join in the action for fear of endangering his passenger 's life , but the Elisabeth suffered 57 killed and 176 wounded and such serious damage that she had to be sent back to Brest , taking with her her precious cargo of arms and French volunteers .
18 She had to be , her allowance a pittance .
19 But the fire in her body when she lay in bed thinking of him that night warned her that she had to be strong or she would n't be able to reject him if he tried again .
20 She had to be scolded .
21 But she had to be careful .
22 Trainer 's wife , best friend — either way , she had to be told the truth .
23 The vet said that nothing could be done to save her and that she had to be put down .
24 Keepers discovered her desperately fighting for life at the West Midlands Safari Park where she had to be hand-reared before being transferred to the Kingsley wildlife sanctuary , Cheshire , where she takes every opportunity to hitch a ride from the resident Bull Terrier bitch .
25 She had to be taken to hospital and has since recovered .
26 However , if the patient required an X-ray he or she had to be seen by one of the consultants or registrars .
27 Despite the pain and the worry , Olivia knew she had to be brave for the sake of her six-year-old daughter Chloe , she told Hello ! magazine .
28 First , though , she had to be saved from her sad trance .
29 She had to be one of the fastest production boats in the islands ; her twin big-block engines could hurl the three-ton wedge-shaped hull at over eighty miles an hour , and it worried neither McIllvanney nor Bellybutton that at such a speed a man could not hear himself scream and that even the smallest wave shook the bones right out of their flesh .
30 She had to be a prop for him to lean on when his own despair grew too great .
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