Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] she to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , God , but he must really love her to be able to lower himself to this . |
| 2 | And of course , if you look at it er , logically , I mean , for a a woman to be tied up and kept in a room , you know , and kept prisoner all her life you could hardly expect her to be sane even if she did |
| 3 | ‘ I would still prefer her to be a doctor or an engineer , ’ sighs Safiqua , who is the one who usually fields family criticism . |
| 4 | By contrast Mrs Cowan , s son-in-law said that it was no trouble to him to visit his mother-in-law every day and help take care of her , but that he would ideally prefer her to be in residential care because there she would have constant care and companionship , which was what she really needed . |
| 5 | ‘ You can hardly expect her to be . ’ |