Example sentences of "[subord] she [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards she will speak on the party 's policy for women at Darlington Arts Centre , where she will also launch Labour 's Woman Today magazine . |
| 2 | It was obviously very cheap , so she would n't expect compensation . |
| 3 | You say she 's got no friends or contacts here so she ca n't get work , and she ca n't get money — sooner or later , she 's going to surface . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Because if she ca n't make money from the senator 's charter , ’ he went on , ‘ I was thinking of offering her a job or two on my own behalf . |
| 5 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 6 | She felt as if she would never need sleep again . |
| 7 | She felt as if she could even feel smoke , stale and greasy , in her hair . |
| 8 | On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank … |
| 9 | If she could only stop eating . |
| 10 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
| 11 | She wwent to the High Court in August and won the riught to sue for malicious falsehood , a rare procedure , which she says she has to use because she ca n't afford libel proceedings . |
| 12 | A court has heard that a father battered his baby daughter to death because she would n't stop crying . |
| 13 | ‘ Or maybe I 'm a fruitarian bat , ’ said Marina , laughing , ‘ the one that got turned down for every Drac film because she would n't suck blood . |
| 14 | A COCAINE and heroin user killed his 17-year-old girlfriend because she would not have sex with him , a court heard yesterday . |
| 15 | Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check . |
| 16 | TRAGIC aerobics teacher Joanna Grenside faked her own dramatic kidnap because she could not face Christmas . |
| 17 | Is it not time that those pensioners , including the one who told me that she was keeping warm during the day by clutching a hot-water bottle because she could not afford heating bills , were given a decent state pension as of right , without the humiliation of a contributory test , which involves means-testing for those who are in greatest need ? |
| 18 | Elizabeth listened intently , till she could practically see steam puffing out of the ears of Seumas Ban and Lady Bridhe . |
| 19 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 20 | The organiser , too , is a woman … though she 'd rather give pride of place at the air display to another female — Sally B , a B-17 bomber , star of the film Memphis Belle . |
| 21 | The conventions prevented her from heaping any further abuse on Chay Bank , a housing project which she had frequently and loudly denounced , but near which she had never set foot : the precariousness of her own social position would forever prevent her from visiting Fred Bowen , and this yearly ritual meeting on neutral ground was as much as she would ever dare risk . |