Example sentences of "she [was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was built to keep the docks at Gloucester and Sharpness free from silt but could also work in the River Severn outside Sharpness Lock and on the west bank of the river at Lydney docks . |
| 2 | For some reason she was determined to drive the fact home , and Jenna felt rising anger to add to her other feelings . |
| 3 | She was determined to reach the body before anybody else . |
| 4 | She was determined to defend the discount to that mother , although that did not seem to fit the rest of her contributions in Committee . |
| 5 | But go to England she would for she was determined to make the directors of Croydon and Cooper see sense . |
| 6 | In October 1991 , she was asked to examine the three sisters and found them healthy in appearance and co-operative . |
| 7 | She was made to heave the hostel and the SSD found her a flat . |
| 8 | When her granddaughters came they were expected to scrub too : ‘ I 've seen my eldest sister , the minute she went in she was made to scrub the table — and it was white — scrub the floorboards — which were white . ’ |
| 9 | ( 68 ) Ianthe Ambrose could have gone overboard any time after 9.10 , when she was seen to leave the lecture , and on her own statement she had been no swimmer . |
| 10 | ( 60 ) She was heard to shut the door a few minutes later . |
| 11 | In Romania , though , she was said to see the poverty . |
| 12 | In the subsequent weeks leading up to Christmas , Liza saw Freddie Nash only twice : once at a private party given by two officers who rented a small cottage in the district , the second time at a dance organised by a certain county grande dame , who seemed to think she was destined to introduce the opposite sex to one another as her personal contribution to the war effort . |
| 13 | She was tempted to bolt the door . |
| 14 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 15 | Rain avoided remarking that she was inspired to believe the letter a delaying tactic . |
| 16 | Like all young Germans she was compelled to join the Hitler Youth organisation . |
| 17 | She was thought to haunt the Dane Hills of Leicestershire in England , and to live in a cave she had dug out of the rock with her own hands . |
| 18 | Now Great-Great-Grandmother Elizabeth must have been a very capable woman because circumstances demanded that her husband went out to work as a miner , so she was left to manage the farm . |
| 19 | She was left to take the car home . |
| 20 | Karen thinks this is why she was allowed to take the time of to train . |
| 21 | She was allowed to leave the Mount Carmel centre halfway through the siege . |
| 22 | She was allowed to fetch the scissors herself from the drawer in the shed . |
| 23 | Instead , she was allowed to dominate the play , instead of Ken , or instead of Michael Bryant , around whom the action took place , the character who was being pulled in all directions . |
| 24 | Every week she was expected to clean the house right through and make the dinners , while the grandmother had her outing to Edinburgh : ‘ she had jist t'come in and sit doon like a lady . ’ |
| 25 | Poor had just returned from a week in bed with flu when she was picked to test the trapeze . |
| 26 | For this task she was required to sign the Official Secrets Act — in case , I was told , confidential papers from the National Physical Laboratory in Bushey Park were borne by the wind on to her marigold patch . |
| 27 | Because of plumbing repairs , she was required to enter the cell block through the front door . |
| 28 | She knew it was ridiculous , but his words gave her a strange little tingle deep inside , and she was forced to smother the smile that kept trying to push its way to her lips . |
| 29 | Ethel May was well known and well liked , which stood her well when she was forced to support the family single-handedly , by opening a beauty shop in her own home . |
| 30 | Because of her awkward position , she was forced to use the prosthetic arm ( the fake one , she kept thinking ) , and the fingers were dull and leaden . |