Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [conj] she [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may know that she is not going to recover from the blow of widowhood any sooner than other women do , many of whom at least have a large legacy of happy memories upon which to draw in the years ahead of them . |
| 2 | Well , she must do if she 's always in the Muckrakers . ’ |
| 3 | You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up . |
| 4 | Her only concern was where I should go while she was away . |
| 5 | I must state that she was not my favourite person . |
| 6 | Since she was capable of loving so deeply , she can still , if she chooses , remain in the business of giving and receiving love for as long as she lives , for although she may feel that she is no longer everything to anyone , she can still mean a great deal to a number of people . |
| 7 | Sue might know but she 's not telling us . |
| 8 | And of course she 'll say it 's all right and she 'll manage but she 's just being brave . ’ |
| 9 | Mada Joyce did some higglering in the neighbourhood , taking produce from the smallholdings down to the market in the coastal town of Annotto to sell and buying any goods the villagers might require while she was there . |
| 10 | ‘ Let's see if she 's in . ’ |
| 11 | You 'd think that she was still in her sixties , Constance thought approvingly , as Louise took out a cigarette and , crossing her legs decisively , made herself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 12 | It occurred to her that if this was a simple meal she would hate to see what Monique Lavaux could do when she was really trying . |
| 13 | She could feel that she was already soaking wet as she nuzzled up to him like a happy , purring cat . |
| 14 | Vapour from a heated pool in the centre of the floor obscured Folly 's vision with a steamy , exotically scented mist , but , even so , she could see that she was not alone . |
| 15 | Although it was almost dark , they could see that she was poorly dressed . |
| 16 | At least he could sleep while she was away . |
| 17 | They never dreamt that it could happen cos she was n't in the risk age group or anything , it just never crossed their minds that it might happen and they were totally well they just did n't know what to think . |
| 18 | She must bail before she could leave if she was not further to dampen her skirt ; but what did that matter ? |
| 19 | Tug could tell that she was desperately in earnest by the way she opened her eyes wide and by the little sudden lift of her eyebrows . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's two and a half guineas ! ’ she hissed at Louise , who could tell that she was genuinely appalled . |
| 21 | ‘ But I used to wonder whether she was ever going to get married . |
| 22 | Passive suffering , where the woman does n't move around , scream or swear , may mean that she is too focused on the pain , with no distractions to help her . |
| 23 | ‘ One would think that she was merely asleep . ’ |
| 24 | Discerning Greeks like Thucydides ( i. 10 ) knew that the relative splendour of the physical remains of Sparta and Athens was no index of their real strengths : suppose , he says , that the city of Sparta were to become deserted , future generations would find it hard to believe that the place , an old-fashioned , higgledy-piggledy collection of villages , was really as powerful as it was represented to be ; whereas if the same were to happen to Athens , one would think that she was twice as powerful as she really was . |
| 25 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 26 | At least then he would know that she was not lying on ice in a bloody mortuary . |
| 27 | He would sense that she was not herself . |
| 28 | They were drawing closer to the barrier now and Donna began looking for Julie , praying that her sister was waiting , hardly daring to contemplate what she would do if she was n't . |
| 29 | She did n't ever want to leave Ma and Pa , and she would die if she was n't near Edward . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyone who knows Jo would realise that she 's not the kind of person to do that , ’ he said . |