Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must call him in the morning , give him all the names she had found , and let the police handle any investigation . |
| 2 | But now , with only a little while to go before she must join him in the sitting-room , she was starting to have second thoughts about the wisdom of accepting . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's a right madam and I 'm always afraid she might kill someone in the paddock , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Or she might drown him in the bath or push him under a train . |
| 5 | Well she 'll want it in the house and all that ! |
| 6 | I mean she 'll put it in the proper procedure , and then she 'll put like operator performance and things , that have erm . |
| 7 | Before she could fit it in the lock the door opened . |
| 8 | She could busy herself in the garden till then . |
| 9 | She could sense it in the way men talked to her , the sideways glances of strangers . |
| 10 | As she danced she could lose herself in the movement . |
| 11 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 12 | But , before she could find it in the darkness , he switched on the bedside lamp , and her face flamed with colour as he turned to look at her , his eyes darkening as they swept freely over her nakedness . |
| 13 | Yet she could see nothing in the future but hurt for both of them . |
| 14 | She tended to be over-indulgent with Victoria , partly because she could see herself in the child and partly too , in some perverse fashion , to make up for what she considered to be her own harsh upbringing under Jonadab 's strict rules . |
| 15 | She could see it in the covert glances of the London girls , some of whom had been planning how to look at the Belvoir dance for the past month . |
| 16 | She could see it in the black expression that crossed his face and the tightened lips . |
| 17 | She could hear him in the room , yet he did n't answer . |
| 18 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 19 | She 'd beat him in the kitchen ! |
| 20 | Donna was n't sure whether it was perspiration or if she 'd wet herself in the hectic chase . |
| 21 | She 'd read something in the book of proverbs that summed it up perfectly . |
| 22 | The red-headed nurse said she 'd put it in the incinerator herself if nobody took it away , and fast . |
| 23 | If he made a joke and she realized it was one , she used to butt him in the chest — she was much shorter — and say ‘ You 're silly ! ’ |
| 24 | If this was death then she would stare it in the face . |
| 25 | And hearing him Minch was pleased , for she saw that he was learning to understand others and would be ready for the harder lessons she would give him in the coming year . |
| 26 | She would discuss it in the morning , and see sense then . |
| 27 | She would ring him in the week . |
| 28 | ‘ All the people in this valley is descended from four brothers from Scotland called Leekie , ’ Nana sat heavily down on the upright rush-seated chair which was the most she would permit herself in the way of comfort , and began the tale as Martha had always heard her tell it . |
| 29 | She would argue about moving Anna before she had fully recovered — if she recovered — but she would put nothing in the way of Anna 's marriage to Nahum Plunkett . |
| 30 | She has a good sense of humour — she will need it in the years to come . ’ |