Example sentences of "[vb past] she [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found she could just catch a direct Finnair flight if she hurried . |
| 2 | She shook her head , pointed to the baby first and then to Sycorax as if her maternal cares in both their cases meant she could not stir a moment from their side . |
| 3 | In three months , too , while she knew she would n't get a job that paid as well as the one she had now , she should have secured another job , should n't she ? |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 5 | But she knew she must n't make a fuss . |
| 6 | He thought she might not last a week at Anpetuwi . |
| 7 | He thought she might not have a heart , or tried to explain away her indifference by imagining she were made of obsidian through and through . |
| 8 | On the one hand she thought she would possibly enjoy a hour 's gardening when she came home from work and that it would help her unwind , but on the other hand her adult children and her husband would expect tea at 6 p.m . |
| 9 | One woman pointed to his madder lake trousers , said she would n't mind a pair like those . |
| 10 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 11 | When they first came to this country — like my mum , when she first came she said she could n't find a place to live because people did n't want black people on their premises . |
| 12 | Mr Reid maintains he was refused the right to call witnesses on his behalf while Mrs Gerrie said she could not remember a request being made at the original hearing . |
| 13 | The presenter said she could only recall a few people , and volunteered the story of David Parkin throwing a glass of wine at his wife and how she had watched Maggie Parkin stalk out of the room trying to pretend that nothing had happened . |
| 14 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 15 | But because of the storm the hatches had been battened down and no matter how hard she searched she could not find a way out of the hold . |