Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [modal v] [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those previous kisses had had meaning after all , and now he had only to utter those three little words that would send her up into the clouds . |
| 2 | Then he stroked her lightly , soothingly , as if determined not to make any sudden movements that would startle her . |
| 3 | She wanted to make some lightweight remark that would let her out gracefully , but nothing came . |
| 4 | She had shown Cheryl little ways that would help her to remember the semaphore letters and she practised signalling with her . |
| 5 | They were strongly reprimanded by Woman 's Own whose editor made the strange assumption that large hips were synonymous with big feet , and she said the well corsetted woman has a good figure that will last her for life , and feet many times smaller than those of the uncontrolled . |
| 6 | A deadly charm that could humiliate her because it could easily make her melt and beg and forget a lifetime of rigid adherence to propriety . |
| 7 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Japan does not seek a total commitment that would restrict her and endanger contacts with others . |
| 9 | She had been secure , certain of her facts , her life built on the reality of the past , and now things were all tilted , wavering , with a man she did not know issuing orders that would take her towards a place she had no desire to visit . |
| 10 | She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park . |
| 11 | No more than a small bullet that would make her bleed . |
| 12 | The fairy Grandmarina appears , and gives Alicia a magic fishbone that will bring her whatever she wishes for ‘ provided she wishes for it at the right time ’ . |
| 13 | A magic fairy that would whisk her away from all this , she thought , who could turn the clock back and give her a second chance — a more dignified entrance perhaps , a way of showing this arrogant rat just what she thought of him . |
| 14 | She did n't recognise any landmarks , so she went on again , keeping a sharp lookout for her ‘ pony tree ’ and for any other tree or open space that would tell her she was on the right path . |
| 15 | On the other hand that would mean she would have to spend the rest of the night in her room with the door locked while he mounted guard outside , forgoing both the pleasure of quelling her hunger pangs and , much more important , a very real opportunity of fulfilling her original quest . |
| 16 | She took a deep breath and then hastened after him ; it was cowardly but she was desperate for something , some insight , some new aspect that would save her from having to hate him . |
| 17 | She was not about to be drawn into any argument with the count and she was shakily aware that any of her usual remarks would bring swift retaliation , probably spectacular aerobatics that would have her screaming and confessing madly to the sin of femininity . |
| 18 | Rupert hesitated , unwilling to admit that anthropologists did no good , yet for the moment unable to think of a positive example that would convince her . |