Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl could not explain how the locket came to be among her clothes , and it was clear that her protestations of innocence were in vain . |
| 2 | I asked Maureen about this strange and spectacular bird , and she told me how it came to be in her care . |
| 3 | Only it did n't explain how the medallion came to be in her mother 's possession . |
| 4 | All her good points seemed to be in her mouth , her voice , her singing and her quick wit , and he noticed , too , something different about her : she 'd had her hair waved . |
| 5 | Generally , they were the cast-offs of two children in the house who happened to be about her own age , and this could mean a pretty frock coming her way , but only if , Mrs Aggie said , she kept her nose clean . |
| 6 | She happened to be in her uniform . |
| 7 | She needed to be on her own . |
| 8 | She needed to be on her own . |
| 9 | But Vi needed to be in her own little home . |
| 10 | She preferred to be on her own in a kitchen . |
| 11 | I would have liked us to share a house but your mother preferred to be on her own . ’ |
| 12 | A WOMAN , said to be in her twenties , died yesterday in what an eyewitness described as a horrific accident on the M876 near Denny when a lorry struck a car . |
| 13 | She had to get out of here , had to be on her own for a while , had to sort out the confusion fogging her brain . |
| 14 | She had to be at her most persuasive before being allowed to send the tempramental and accident-prone filly over timber . |
| 15 | Since she was the same age as Julius , she had to be in her mid-thirties , but her skin was smooth and unlined . |
| 16 | Philip knew that she was irritated by his being there , that she wanted to be on her own . |
| 17 | Whoever it was might just break in and , if they did , she wanted to be on her feet to face them . |
| 18 | She just wanted to be on her own so that the lava of tears could flow unchecked , melt it all away . |
| 19 | So this last time she wanted to be in her office , correct and professional at the right time . |
| 20 | At first she told him that she wanted to be near her cousin Freddy , in the Engineers . |