Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [verb] to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ought to demand to be taken back to London . |
| 2 | And while she knew she should request to be put down , she was enjoying the feel of being held too much to utter the words . |
| 3 | A mother may set out some crayons and paper or plasticine while she gets on with the ironing but she should expect to be interrupted and asked for help . |
| 4 | But the injury ca n't be mended and vets say she 'll have to be put down . |
| 5 | Admittedly Dawn has been too outspoken , and she 'll have to be told to keep her feelings to herself , just as I do . |
| 6 | With far more reason than Harold Wilson in 1964 , she could claim to be running ( mutatis mutandis ) a Bolshevik revolution with a Tsarist Cabinet . |
| 7 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 8 | If he walked in or the girl came to clean the grate , she 'd pretend to be talking to a tradesman : ‘ It really was more fat than lean . |
| 9 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 10 | ‘ If it were true , she 'd have to be protected against someone like that , would n't she ? ’ |
| 11 | But she 'd have to be told . |
| 12 | He had to tell the story umpteen times , getting a little further into the tale each time , whereupon she 'd ask to be taken from the beginning again . |
| 13 | She constantly felt the need to get out of the house and go somewhere , anywhere … but always she would return to be punished , because there was nowhere . |
| 14 | She would prefer to be spending her time on planning for a teacher-led lesson , rather than on organising equipment and administering a scheme : |
| 15 | A glance at her watch informed her she would have to be leaving soon . |
| 16 | She would have to be re-instated , and her suspension rescinded . |
| 17 | But she would have to be moved soon . |
| 18 | ‘ She would have to be escorted , ’ said Mahmoud . |
| 19 | But there was nothing for it , she would have to be killed . |
| 20 | Annely Juda said at the time that she would have to be carried out of the building rather than leave . |
| 21 | If the maid had arrived and was waiting for them she would have to be driven back to Mondano . |
| 22 | She was a woman in need of a child to love , and having none of her own she was lavishing it all on Corrie Palmer , which was sad because in another year she would have to be returned to the hospital . |
| 23 | In the rickshaw on the way back from that morning 's tolly I asked Vimla whether she would like to be reborn as a hijra in her next life . |
| 24 | Well I du n no , bet she thought it was Stu , she would like to be left with him long ! |
| 25 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 26 | SIMPLY STEFFI AND WHAT SHE WOULD LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED FOR |
| 27 | Of Nick , because she would like to be sitting there , she was n't too big . |
| 28 | An hour later she would ask to be forgiven . |
| 29 | She let it be known that this was a cause she would wish to be supported and therefore we intend to open a Fund for a period of six months from 1st March — 1st September at the end of which time the Society will donate the money to the hospital in Molly 's name . |
| 30 | Her arms enclosed him just as she would wish to be clasped and comforted . |