Example sentences of "[conj] she [modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a good thing she had n't known or she would have been self-conscious . |
| 2 | If you already have your own company sick pay scheme , it must pay the employee at least what he or she would have been entitled to on SSP . |
| 3 | Unlike Hegel 's slave , however , who loses his subjectivity to the Master , the ‘ slave ’ in porn must retain some subjectivity or she will cease being desirable to the master . |
| 4 | Rain rallied although she would have been happy to stay where she was , lying on the bed . |
| 5 | Although she might have been wise to add that even the life of a Television Presenter 2nd Class is a doddle compared to packing frozen peas , doing a 12-hour nursing shift in an understaffed hospital ward or for that matter being married to David Mellor . |
| 6 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 7 | To herself she had to admit that she would have been willing to go further than talk . |
| 8 | She was so devoted to the principle that beauty is a frivolity and a sign of sin that she would have been ashamed to have it in the house . |
| 9 | But she thought that she would have been glad of someone to talk about her new plans with , all the same . |
| 10 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 11 | It is understood that Mr Major wanted her to be prisons minister , and there was speculation last night that she might have been reluctant to be back in harness with Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Home Secretary , who was her boss at the Health Department during the eggs affair . |
| 12 | She had hinted darkly that Wilson herself must be to blame , that she must have been weak , must not have written plain enough and as she had been instructed . |
| 13 | ’ Right , ’ Mala said , with more crispness than she should have been able to produce . |
| 14 | When she had gone Scarlet thought how bored with their conversation Brian would have been had he been present , and then she thought that , with him around , they would n't have had that conversation and she would have been bored . |
| 15 | And she might have been able to deal with the situation — might , indeed , have been able to suppress and finally bury such an errant emotion — if it were n't for her present situation . |
| 16 | Nothing like this had ever happened to her before , and she should have been afraid . |
| 17 | Last night 's fiasco had n't helped , but even without it she wondered if she 'd have been able to cope with her deeply buried resentment towards Romano de Sciorto . |
| 18 | I was expecting that at any minute Mum would shout down to find out what was going on but she must have been preoccupied , trying on her new frock . |
| 19 | Round him , she was talkative in order to provoke him into replying , and the attempt made her a habitual confessor , though she would have been amazed if she had been charged with talking about herself all the time . |
| 20 | She wondered a little resentfully why he did not ask her to go , though she would have been scared if he actually had done so ; she lacked a North American youngster 's experience with the opposite sex . |