Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had come her way because , leaving them in charge of Mrs Gracie , Dinah had gone for diversion to what she expected to be a dull sewing-meeting in the Islington church where she and Paul had been married . |
| 2 | In this way she lived to be a hundred years old , more or less . |
| 3 | She tried to be a strength for her daughter , but was overwhelmed by the enormity of what was happening to them all . |
| 4 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
| 5 | As she learnt to be a friend to herself , she attracted close friends for the first time — and the disasters which had become an accepted part of her life became more and more rare . |
| 6 | When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 . |
| 7 | So , swallowing hard on her emotion , she strove to be a more practical help . |
| 8 | She happened to be a staunch Methodist and that at least offered me some welcome continuity . |
| 9 | And she happened to be a Christian . |
| 10 | But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop . |
| 11 | Longing as usual with her spirit to enact the role that her flesh shrank from , she pined to be a doctor . |
| 12 | Sometimes he forgot and gave them again , which she took to be a good sign . |
| 13 | Two floors above , Jude heard what she took to be a domestic argument , and not wanting somebody else 's marital strife to sour her fine mood , was crossing to turn up the soul song on the turntable when somebody knocked on the door . |
| 14 | The ‘ chair ’ moved swiftly to his rescue , bowling him what she thought to be a slow ball . |
| 15 | David Wright , prosecuting for Liverpool environmental health department , said : ‘ She began to eat the roll and felt what she thought to be a chunky piece of lettuce . |
| 16 | Yet she managed to be a rather successful financial journalist . |
| 17 | The arrival of the Brownings and her husband in Florence at the beginning of June was the beginning of what she felt to be a softening of her self and she was glad to find the hard crust she felt encasing her crack and dissolve . |
| 18 | She proved to be a remarkably good co-ordinator in uniting the different societies in their drive to improve conditions and by touring the country , set up local Old People 's Welfare groups to promote homes , clubs , visiting and other services . |
| 19 | She proved to be a pleasant soul whose husband had been drowned at sea . |
| 20 | But she proved to be a natural and her performance won rave reviews . |
| 21 | But she proved to be a highly effective change master in her organization , responsible for many successful new projects , because she is a superb coalition builder , drawing hardly at all on her relationship with the CEO . |
| 22 | On Monday she had gone to her job — improbably she appeared to be a supervisor for a market research firm — as usual , and could be vouched for by colleagues there . |
| 23 | ‘ Because Stapleton thought that she would be very much more useful to him if she appeared to be a free woman . ’ |
| 24 | She hoped that Constance would not embarrass her by telling Mick that she wished to be a kennel-maid : she 'd changed her mind anyway . |
| 25 | She had to be a passive , consenting thing , like a slave , a physical slave … . |
| 26 | She had to be a prop for him to lean on when his own despair grew too great . |
| 27 | She knew from that moment she had to be a Salvation Army officer . |
| 28 | ‘ Jessica Olinton is in my class at school , and she did tell me she wanted to be a Brownie but her daddy would n't let her . ’ |
| 29 | When Sarah herself left school at the age of 18 , she was n't sure whether she wanted to be a teacher or a nurse . |
| 30 | Miss Zeta Jones , a most serious artist , was then upset over rumours that she wanted to be a rock star . |