Example sentences of "she to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie Grubbe was incapable of not loving Søren ; she was neither to be congratulated upon the fact , nor was she to be criticised for it . |
| 2 | Was she to be next in the circle ? |
| 3 | Yes , because it 'll be nice , us , it 's , I mean they , abode there is a lot oth , there is , there is a lot of other work now , there prisoner are prisoner of is still fairly central is n't it , he or she to be , to be er , the work we do . |
| 4 | Did this mean therefore that in some way France had forfeited her position in Indochina and was she to be treated as an opponent rather than an ally ? |
| 5 | Was she to be sentenced that long ? |
| 6 | Her mother said it was all nerves , but what had she to be nervy about ? |
| 7 | " Well , my son , but where is she to be found ? " |
| 8 | Rosa made a little game out of answering , so pleased was she to be entertaining him with her talk . |
| 9 | Rosalind , disguised as a young man ( Ganymede ) speaks to Phoebe , who clearly considers her to be an attractive male . |
| 10 | Removing the coat revealed her to be completely naked , which finally put the cat among the pigeons : they were banished ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Marjorie left Lizzie 's body at the vet 's and arranged for her to be cremated . |
| 13 | The sea-gravel seemed to her to be composed of ‘ shattered rubies tinted with mauve ’ . |
| 14 | The notion of giving a helping hand to a new literature produced against these overwhelming odds would naturally appear to her to be anathema . |
| 15 | Her first record shows her to be as musical as she is technically accomplished . |
| 16 | He seemed to her to be extremely ancient ( he was 35 ) . |
| 17 | He wanted her to be interested . |
| 18 | This continued for a long time during which he shuffled his feet uncomfortably , controlling his immediate impulse to shout at her to be quiet . |
| 19 | She is very good at her studies and we want her to be a teacher . |
| 20 | She 's very slim with curves in all the right places , but Dennis wanted her to be even thinner . |
| 21 | He wanted her to be safe . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He came upon Mary and anointed her to be the mother of the Lord . |
| 27 | He would have liked her to be indebted to him for something . |
| 28 | Nobody told her to be off , or lay off , or push off , or not to touch , or to be careful . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |