Example sentences of "[pron] she [verb] [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She founded a Hindu College at Benares , adopted the 14-year-old Krishnamurti , whom she believed to be the earthly vehicle of the new World Teacher , and played an important part in the campaign for Indian self-government . |
| 2 | At Gloucester Crown Court in August 1986 a young mother was found guilty of killing her four-year-old son whom she believed to be the devil . |
| 3 | Agnes watched the young , plump , matronly lady look at the young man , whom she imagined to be the same age as his wife . |
| 4 | The sale was appealed by the collector 's widow , Gillian Sackler , who , overturning a lower court decision authorising the sale at Christie 's , argued that the Sackler children had acted in conflict of interest with the estate 's wishes , and that the collection should have been kept together , on long term loan at the National Gallery , Washington , in compliance with what she believed to be the collector 's intent . |
| 5 | The profound anguish and hopeless despair of this woman in the face of what she believed to be the moral ruin of her whole life can not well be described . |
| 6 | All this was to change , however , in the year she describes as ‘ extraordinary ’ , 1963 , as a result of what she took to be the effect that television was having on public debate . |
| 7 | At the sight of a title he felt that he must bend the knee for her sake , as he knew that his wife yearned to enter what she saw to be the utterly perfect circle of society , conversation , fashion and taste described by the British aristocracy . |
| 8 | When she was young and maybe a little wilful , Elizabeth had made what she deemed to be the right decision , and she had suffered because of it . |
| 9 | If they are not , Mrs Thatcher will either have to reconsider her faith in the private sector always to do what she deems to be the right thing , or she will have to promote changes in the way in which the markets go about their business . |
| 10 | Tall windows stared bleakly down at her from what she guessed to be the great hall . |