Example sentences of "[vb past] her to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long he recognised Eva 's ability and invited her to be vice president . |
| 2 | The Herald spoke to Patricia Routledge and found her to be keen to return to the Yvonne Arnaud , where the audiences recently warmed to her in Alan Bennett 's Talking Heads . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in a " matched guise " test which I administered to a class of fourteen to fifteen year-old adolescents in the speaker 's own home area , seven out of eleven black pupils judged her to be black on the basis of an extract from the story above ( see Chapter 4 for a discussion ) . |
| 4 | And then impulse caused her to be frank . |
| 5 | The island presented such a complex profile to the early European navigators that they assumed her to be separate islands — and her pluralized name remained all the way up to Indonesia 's independence when an orgy of name-changing occurred and Celebes was renamed Sulawesi , and her capital , Makassar , became Ujung Pandang . |
| 6 | He guessed her to be worrying about money . |
| 7 | He had to watch her carefully , he said , and if she felt like pottering around , that was good medicine , Anything was that encouraged her to be cheerful . |
| 8 | And he actually expected her to be pleased to be let into his secret ! |
| 9 | She knew Jonas expected her to be present , but , in the circumstances , she felt it might be best to keep a low profile and retire early . |
| 10 | She went to watch Mary Mullen 's wedding on Saturday as Maureen expected her to be interested , but the sight of their happiness made Anne feel even more miserable . |
| 11 | Only if he knew her to be ready to take that risk herself . |
| 12 | Ron Barton , who had had a word with his editor at his regular table at the Savoy Grill , had been told he could pay five thousand for an exclusive if he thought her to be worthwhile . |
| 13 | Such thoughts were poor stimulus for a conscience-stricken appetite , and although the restaurant which Ven took her to was smart , and the food good , Fabia was able to eat only little . |
| 14 | She was in love with a man who considered her to be lower than the lowest form of human life , yet even that was n't enough to change her feelings for him . |
| 15 | The sense of injury Vitor felt over Thomas meant that he also considered her to be devious and untrustworthy , wickedness on two legs . |
| 16 | It made her feel that he wanted her to be grateful to him for marrying her . |
| 17 | They wanted her to be keen , did n't they ? |
| 18 | He wanted her to be safe . |
| 19 | She knew that her mother wanted her to be fatter ; she willed herself to grow solid flesh like Hyacinth , but nothing changed . |
| 20 | He wanted her to be interested . |
| 21 | And because he could n't marry her , but wanted her to be comfortable financially , had given her money ? |