Example sentences of "she to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is very good at her studies and we want her to be a teacher . |
| 2 | Her imaginative and generous appreciation of his stone head at a time when his sculpture was rarely valued or sold shows her to be a woman of taste and courage as well as a dangerous and destructive lover . |
| 3 | He had first of all , as if in some extraordinary dream , after struggling through the dark tunnel , seen her in bed , seen her dark bright eyes , reflecting the candlelight , gazing calmly at him ; and he had imagined her to be a child , a boy . |
| 4 | The material seemed to her to be a thick heavy silk . |
| 5 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 6 | Ought the criticism of her to be a thought subdued before the book comes out ? |
| 7 | On the other hand , must a man breathe on a woman for her to be a woman ? |
| 8 | If Nicky Scott Wilson wanted to keep his life secret , that was fine by her ; but he need n't expect her to be a part of it , in that case . |
| 9 | It is significant that , in an age when belief in miracles , extreme saintliness and revelation were of the stuff of daily life , so many of her contemporaries believed Margery to be mentally ill ; only , probably , the superstitious , the credulous and the ignorant believed her to be a genuine mystic . |
| 10 | And yet now , it seemed , he considered her to be a horsewoman . |
| 11 | Beth knew how Maisie had believed her to be a widow . |
| 12 | She realised they 'd want her to be a double agent , so they 'd have a mole inside American Intelligence . |
| 13 | BELVILLE : I found her to be a coquette , an told her so and she is offended . |
| 14 | True , Bernard did want her to be a housewife and mother but at the same time this was Laura 's interpretation of what he wanted and she believed deeply that it was wrong to challenge a husband 's authority . |
| 15 | If he wanted her to be a top model , she 'd behave like one . |
| 16 | In his present distrustful mood , he might imagine her to be a gold-digger on top of everything else . |
| 17 | ‘ I would still prefer her to be a doctor or an engineer , ’ sighs Safiqua , who is the one who usually fields family criticism . |
| 18 | He seemed to her to be too splendid to wash dishes ; even Glyn would not think of it , and Alain seemed to her to be a figure of towering importance , the most masculine man she had ever seen . |
| 19 | For Papa , too , had wanted her to be a proper young lady after she had reached eighteen , and , for the first time , remorse struck her , for what had happened once that magic date had been reached , and for what had happened after that , culminating in … |
| 20 | She would not return to you because you believed her to be a fallen woman , and nothing she could say would convince you otherwise . ’ |
| 21 | That he wanted her to be a nuisance ? |
| 22 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 23 | He wanted her to be a real mother , not like Lucy . |
| 24 | She 's nothing but a mercenary little gold-digger , and I will not allow her to be a mother to my sister ! ’ |
| 25 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 26 | Not to her father 's villa — he 'd expect her to be a radiant bride just back from her honeymoon . |
| 27 | He likes all that , the cars and people calling him Minister , but he wanted her to be the good politician 's wife , doing his entertaining . |
| 28 | He came upon Mary and anointed her to be the mother of the Lord . |
| 29 | Salah did not need to persuade himself ; and his Egyptian teacher was also anxious that his daughter should continue — — but he did not want her to be the only one . |
| 30 | But when it actually occurs , whether her reaction is one of numbness and shock , or of anguish more openly expressed through episodes of weeping and talking freely about her feelings , you will need to brace yourself to catch her as she falls into what will seem to her to be the bottomless pit of her sorrow . |