Example sentences of "to she [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sea-gravel seemed to her to be composed of ‘ shattered rubies tinted with mauve ’ . |
| 2 | The notion of giving a helping hand to a new literature produced against these overwhelming odds would naturally appear to her to be anathema . |
| 3 | He seemed to her to be extremely ancient ( he was 35 ) . |
| 4 | Peasants came to her to be reminded of a particular tale the details of which they had mislaid in the mists of childhood ; more sophisticated members of the community , less concerned with the tale than the teller , made the journey to Elling in an effort to keep alive a tradition that had died elsewhere . |
| 5 | The question seemed to her to be doubly hostile , implying both that the Prince was too short and that she was too tall . |
| 6 | The material seemed to her to be a thick heavy silk . |
| 7 | At once he signed down to her to be silent . |
| 8 | But when it actually occurs , whether her reaction is one of numbness and shock , or of anguish more openly expressed through episodes of weeping and talking freely about her feelings , you will need to brace yourself to catch her as she falls into what will seem to her to be the bottomless pit of her sorrow . |
| 9 | Unless your elderly parent is known to be both very slow to take offence , and also to be a great lover of ‘ lists ’ for everything in life , it would be useless and irritating to her to be presented with a series of sensible menus to follow . |
| 10 | The world beyond seemed to her to be filled with treachery ; treachery to the spirit , abandonment of principle . |
| 11 | The Captain was aware that at this stage she was still sufficiently frightened by what had happened to her to be hiding something , but experience told him that U would be useless to try and force her . |
| 12 | This , in spite of resolving not to do it again , not to lower her standards , which playing pop classics against a background noise of trains and pounding feet and chatter , yells and whistles and rival groups , seemed to her to be . |
| 13 | " Well , then , " she continued , with what seemed to her to be the very height of aware sophistication , " why ever did you want to come here on this sort of trip ? " |
| 14 | ‘ Constanza says that she felt so much for her mother , even if she did not understand then what it meant to her to be cut off from Italy , from Rome . |
| 15 | Alix seemed to her to be both practical and highly intelligent . |
| 16 | Molly 's discomfiture at her father 's unstoppable awfulness was increased by the spectacle of the hard-faced Giovanna , who appeared to her to be simpering , her eyes modestly downcast . |
| 17 | All that seemed to her to be like a man writing , a foreigner to Italy , advising other foreigners , a teacher displaying his wisdom to likely pupils . |
| 18 | Molly turned the paper over and found a list of figures prefixed with lire signs and equipped with what seemed to her to be generous allowances of noughts . |
| 19 | Grainne was no longer quite sure that they were real , for the Castle seemed to her to be so brimful of lingering emotions and the resonances of the past that the footsteps might have belonged to the distant past , or the far-off future , or to a world outside Ireland altogether . |
| 20 | Now that Antoinette was dead , there was no one to repeat to her to be careful , not to drop it , to try at least to walk like a lady , not to plonk it down like that . |
| 21 | Marion decided finally that she 'd start with " Dearest Pete " and work up gradually to " Pete , my darling " because that seemed to her to be the most loving , the most tender , the most romantic : the one with the sound of real love echoing round the saying of it when it was spoken . |
| 22 | It seemed to her to be the nearest thing to rough justice that would ever present itself . |
| 23 | He seemed to her to be too splendid to wash dishes ; even Glyn would not think of it , and Alain seemed to her to be a figure of towering importance , the most masculine man she had ever seen . |
| 24 | He seemed to her to be too splendid to wash dishes ; even Glyn would not think of it , and Alain seemed to her to be a figure of towering importance , the most masculine man she had ever seen . |
| 25 | She followed that up with what seemed to her to be the inevitable question : ‘ Well , are you a virgin then ? ’ |
| 26 | She had worked hard last week , but there seemed to her to be more work than ever landing on her desk this week . |
| 27 | Lubor still seemed to her to be unsure . |
| 28 | Luckily , though , Ven , while well-mannered throughout , seemed to her to be otherwise a shade preoccupied . |
| 29 | She wrote an article about evangelical Christianity , in which she complained bitterly about a particular writer , a Doctor Cumming , who she said was not merely intellectually dishonest in attempting , by slipper means , to reconcile traditional Christian belief with certain new kinds of discovery in archaeology and so on , but he was also lacking in charity and the way which he hammered everybody who did n't subscribe to his particular form of religious believe did n't seem to her to be anything to do with the true spirit of Christianity , so she was discontented with that form of Victorian religion . |