Example sentences of "her to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosalind , disguised as a young man ( Ganymede ) speaks to Phoebe , who clearly considers her to be an attractive male . |
| 2 | Removing the coat revealed her to be completely naked , which finally put the cat among the pigeons : they were banished ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Marjorie left Lizzie 's body at the vet 's and arranged for her to be cremated . |
| 5 | The sea-gravel seemed to her to be composed of ‘ shattered rubies tinted with mauve ’ . |
| 6 | The notion of giving a helping hand to a new literature produced against these overwhelming odds would naturally appear to her to be anathema . |
| 7 | Her first record shows her to be as musical as she is technically accomplished . |
| 8 | He seemed to her to be extremely ancient ( he was 35 ) . |
| 9 | He wanted her to be interested . |
| 10 | This continued for a long time during which he shuffled his feet uncomfortably , controlling his immediate impulse to shout at her to be quiet . |
| 11 | She is very good at her studies and we want her to be a teacher . |
| 12 | She 's very slim with curves in all the right places , but Dennis wanted her to be even thinner . |
| 13 | He wanted her to be safe . |
| 14 | He was not sure which he wanted her to be and was still puzzling about it next day when she called to take him down . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was better , but not a lot , and McLeish who knew her to be in her late fifties decided any casual observer would put her at nearer seventy . |
| 17 | He likes all that , the cars and people calling him Minister , but he wanted her to be the good politician 's wife , doing his entertaining . |
| 18 | He came upon Mary and anointed her to be the mother of the Lord . |
| 19 | He would have liked her to be indebted to him for something . |
| 20 | Nobody told her to be off , or lay off , or push off , or not to touch , or to be careful . |
| 21 | There was enough light in the tunnel from the entrance and from the gun emplacement slits in the pill-box for her to be able to see through the dark . |
| 22 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 23 | You would n't like her to be furiously angry with you next time you pop in . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Next time you think a job needs doing , ’ he said , knowing her to be listening , ‘ tell me . |
| 26 | ‘ OK , ’ Ari said , aware he wanted to get rid of her to be able to talk straight with Leila . |
| 27 | She had enough honour in her to be mindful of the considerable fee . |
| 28 | They wanted her to be admitted as soon as possible for treatment as it seemed she had cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 29 | He could hardly stand still for the two minutes it took to slip them over his blouse and he shouted at her to be quick , that Ferdinando was waiting to take him rabbit-shooting . |
| 30 | Salah did not need to persuade himself ; and his Egyptian teacher was also anxious that his daughter should continue — — but he did not want her to be the only one . |