Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adj] she [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see , again , how striking she must once have been , when her primly drawn-back grey hair had presumably matched her eyes , ‘ with all that 's fair of black and bright ’ . |
| 2 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 3 | Who knew what an unhappy woman might say in such straits , and how little she might mean it ? |
| 4 | She had no idea how exhausted she would be , how lethargic , and she opened her eyes slowly to find him watching her , his breathing still ragged . |
| 5 | Her brain raced over and over what her mother would say , how awful she would feel , what she ought to do , until she felt that the movement in her head would spin her off the bed and send her whirling round the room . |
| 6 | She determined she would show him how generous she could be , next time , how to her the priests ' talk was cant , and she 'd defy all for love of him . |
| 7 | She felt sometimes that he did n't know how spirited she could be , and this would certainly have shown him ! |
| 8 | Just how high she will climb on the podium in August may be indicated at the British Open on Sunday . |
| 9 | She recalled Rose today in the shop , how brutal she could be in attack , but how straight . |
| 10 | Constanza is handling it lightly , but I know how shaken she must be by losing the ring . |
| 11 | You had to wait , knowing that almost certainly she would come here , but without any idea of how dangerous she might be . ’ |
| 12 | I felt sure I would never see poor Glumdalclitch again , and I knew how sad she would be to lose me . |
| 13 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 14 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 15 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 16 | ‘ Luke will , ’ Anna said unfairly , turning away and looking at her beautifully dug earth , and thinking how much she would just like to lie down on it and sleep . |
| 17 | The result was pale and sickly , stress lines showing how much she would look like her mother in a few years ' time . |
| 18 | Possibly it was when she 'd said how much she 'd like to go to school in Vienna and learn how to dance . |
| 19 | Friends at Groggan Primary School have been teasing her about how much she will earn and are envious that she will be off school for four or five weeks . |
| 20 | Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother . |
| 21 | But she was as , we were quite surprised how much she could say . |
| 22 | Now that she was face to face with Bridget , her mind was fully engaged in a debate as to how much she should tell her friend about events in Paris . |
| 23 | Then suddenly she became aware of how inelegant she must look , sprawled there with her skirt up around her hips and her bra dangling out of her open blouse . |
| 24 | It made me appreciate just how frustrated she must so often feel . |
| 25 | Wayne knew how finicky she could be about place and mood , but this plan was one which had all objections beaten before they could even be raised . |
| 26 | I know how tired she must be after the journey . |
| 27 | She was aware how awkward she must seem to the older woman , if not exactly all fingers and thumbs , certainly all arms and legs . |
| 28 | When he had gone , Tess felt again how stupid she must appear to him . |
| 29 | How happy she would be now , if she could turn her head and see him there , and reach out her arms to hold on to him and pull him close . |
| 30 | She had no intention of allowing these people to know how happy she would be working beside Silas — nor must Silas himself be given an inkling of her inner joy . |