Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Lubor still seemed to her to be unsure . |
| 3 | She had worked hard last week , but there seemed to her to be more work than ever landing on her desk this week . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ OK , ’ Ari said , aware he wanted to get rid of her to be able to talk straight with Leila . |
| 6 | This continued for a long time during which he shuffled his feet uncomfortably , controlling his immediate impulse to shout at her to be quiet . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It had appeared , it would move on , but for this moment it was there for her — almost as if it had waited for her to be alone . |