Example sentences of "she [vb past] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just as well Devoy clinched the issue in three games , for she admitted to being tired . |
| 2 | But she had been in his strong arms before , and as agitation at her own weakness assailed her , so , while she still could , she fought to be free . |
| 3 | She lived to be 80 . |
| 4 | Salads my father dismissed as ‘ grass ’ and my mother as ‘ rabbit food ’ , yet she lived to be eighty-four . |
| 5 | She spoke at intervals about moving herself and Marcus out of the flat ( which she agreed to be horrid ) perhaps to another flat or to some vaguely envisaged country cottage . |
| 6 | She tried to be rational . |
| 7 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 8 | She tried to be casual . |
| 9 | She tried to be polite . |
| 10 | Karen was a magnificent bitch , but when she tried to be human she turned into a Disney puppy : trashy , vulgar and sentimental . |
| 11 | It was n't that she had ever made a conscious decision to play the helpless female ; she just always looked as though she was in constant need of care and attention , and over the years she had found that it was far easier to allow people to think what they liked , because whenever she tried to be assertive , or explain that she was really quite competent , no one ever believed her . |
| 12 | When she tried to be cheerful she ended up flustered and red-faced , clammy all over . |
| 13 | She pretended to be asleep . |
| 14 | Sheila , a year younger still , was too self-centred and bright ever to challenge authority on poor ground and she pretended to be sick in order to escape the tension of the day . |
| 15 | She pretended to be busy dealing with her correspondence but she did not see the letters she appeared to be looking at . |
| 16 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 17 | For someone who worked in what she believed to be such a hard-nosed profession he retained a sensitive streak . |
| 18 | She waited thus for what she judged to be half an hour , moving a few steps to and fro to keep warm whenever the coast was clear . |
| 19 | Perhaps the best course was simply to come clean — to explain how she came to be involved in the case , and enlist Veronica 's help ? |
| 20 | She prepared to be magnanimous . |
| 21 | Jack Foley 's eyes rarely left Nan 's face , but she seemed to be unaware of this and talked as if all three of them were equal partners in the conversation . |
| 22 | For they were melting as she stood there , and she seemed to be liquid inside too , her limbs strangely turning to water . |
| 23 | ‘ However , although he lavished all his love and many gifts on his adored wife , she seemed to be unhappy . |
| 24 | She seemed to be asleep . |
| 25 | She seemed to be asleep . |
| 26 | In her wisdom she seemed to be aware of the delicacy of the situation and she was taking great care not to say anything to embarrass her companion . |
| 27 | I was off duty and Kate was alone , on night duty — ’ She seemed to be rambling , and Juliet wanted to prompt her , get her back to the subject . |
| 28 | Sam answered , she seemed to be alone in the house … ’ |
| 29 | She seemed to be more of a good-time girl than anything else . |
| 30 | Her gaze was dark , and hinted at some impossibly deep sense of pain ; and for a moment Lucy felt a certain regret , if not shame , at the way that she seemed to be ready to manipulate any situation for whatever advantage she could get . |