Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in Jefferson v Cape Insulation Ltd ( 3 December 1981 ) Farquharson J awarded substantial damages to a woman who knew she must soon die of mesothelioma for her evident distress in being parted from her family : per Farquharson J : I have also to bear in mind … that the major misery this woman is going to sustain is not the pain , serious and terrible as that is , but the prospect which must be continually in her mind of being parted from her family , and particularly her youngest child . |
| 2 | As he watched his gifted little daughter sobbing her heart out prior to taking the tee in the Girls ' Championship at Leven in 1975 , he told her that she must either play without fuss or stop playing altogether . |
| 3 | Can I just say that my father who is eighty four , is caring for my mother er for the past eleven years , and we keep sort of saying well is it not time that she should maybe go into hospital ? |
| 4 | Heavens , as a free woman , she might even run for president in 1992 . |
| 5 | Erm if I just give your name to Liz she 'll , she 'll probably get in touch with your mum . |
| 6 | Stupid things , she thought , she 'll only get into trouble , snogging at break , honestly . |
| 7 | If she could just stay on top … |
| 8 | Emmie thought she could probably go to sleep in less time than anyone else in the world . |
| 9 | But , before she could really get under way , from one side of the church , the one that leads out to the dustbins , came a group of three or four people one of whom I recognized as Sheldon |
| 10 | What on earth was she thinking about — she could never fall in love with him ! |
| 11 | Rolling over was a painful if not too difficult manoeuvre , but , even with Travis helping all he could , it was an exhausting process trying to find his pocket and reach into it when she could only go by touch . |
| 12 | There was such comfort , such happiness with him that she could only sigh with pleasure . |
| 13 | She could only watch in horror from the street as a local man and soldiers battled bravely to save four-year-old Stacey and two-year-old Ciara from the blaze . |
| 14 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 15 | ‘ And that from an Aussie ? ’ she was startled into answering , then went pink when he gave her a look of what she could only describe as approval . |
| 16 | His face , less hollowed and drawn already than her first impression of it , possessed a quality in repose she could only describe as beauty , of a very virile , masculine variety . |
| 17 | She reckoned that she could only take on board a limited number of surprises in any given period , and her quota for the year had just been reached . |
| 18 | She could almost pass for human . |
| 19 | He pushed her gently down on to the settee and sat so close to her that she could hardly breathe for fear that she 'd betray how much she wanted him . |
| 20 | When a policeman told her it was an offence to deface her driving licence by stabbing a nailfile through her date of birth , she said she 'd rather go to prison . |
| 21 | She 'd probably die of pneumonia , if Nathan did n't throw her overboard first . |
| 22 | With a conscious effort , she swallowed the small spurt of irritation against his easy presumption that she 'd simply fall into line with whatever he chose to do . |
| 23 | We could n't get a straight reply — she 'd only answer in sign language . |
| 24 | She would probably fall into slumber tonight if the devil himself were to share the room with her . |
| 25 | And a Manchester mother vowed she would rather go to prison for life than pay a £4,000 bill run up by her son . |
| 26 | She would rather die of starvation , or sunburn , than face Piers Morrison , who had revealed a side to her which she had never even suspected existed . |
| 27 | ‘ She would occasionally come to church with her sons . |
| 28 | In Dorothy Heathcote 's early days of doing drama with adults she would sometimes begin in role with ‘ Did you get the message … ? ’ |
| 29 | Yes , there were things she would never experience in life , special things which a man and woman in love might enjoy ; she would never carry Tyler 's child again , nor would the two of them grow old together , content in each other 's love . |
| 30 | She would never smell of milk , or the urine of infants , or laundry-steam rising from linen indiscriminately washed . |