Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb mod] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where she would lie still , huddled close to fur scarred and torn , half dead with cold and hunger . |
| 2 | For instance , they used to play a kind of game ( about twice a week , or rather more often if Odilo put his foot down ) , where she must lie still and show no sign of life , throughout . |
| 3 | Eventually , Sabine had been glad to escape altogether to university , where she 'd read Modern Languages . |
| 4 | ‘ He agrees that the best place for Elinor is an English nursing home where she can get round-the-clock medical care if necessary . |
| 5 | The gossiping and the cigar smoke carried strongly downwind to Nora , who had chosen a place to the south of the covert , where she could stand unseen in a gateway , her silhouette lost against a spreading oak at his back . |
| 6 | Certainly , she decided , she would take her into Chollerton and maybe even Alnwick — although she would make sure they kept well away from the antique shop . |
| 7 | After all , she was not now responsible for anyone else , so she could throw good sense and caution to the winds . |
| 8 | How many fathers would drive their daughter 120 miles through mountainous terrain so she could attend weekly ballet and singing lessons ? |
| 9 | And she 'd like to take part in the advanced driving course so she can spin other people 's cars instead of mine , and pass them . |
| 10 | She surfaced beneath the canopy , dived again and powered forward until she could see clear water above . |
| 11 | He had the one song and said cos I 'm not gon na ask her to sing cos she might get embarrassed . |
| 12 | Cos she 'll look silly if she 's having one in nine months . |
| 13 | I think that 's what Cathy used to do cos she used to get tubby , has n't she ? |
| 14 | There is the er the other way of looking at this that you can either change the er sort of C O balance or you can give her some clerical time , because if she can identify clerical work I mean like Diane |
| 15 | So I mean if she can get set nights , she wo n't get in this term anyway I presume all the places will have gone . |
| 16 | She paused , biting her lip while wondering if she should repeat other comments made by the Chinese . |
| 17 | He dropped Jessica off at the harbour , because it was so beautiful and there was that little bar if she should get fractious . |
| 18 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 19 | In one of her first school plays where she played a Dutch doll , Diana only agreed to take the part if she could remain silent . |
| 20 | When , in 1979 , Sir Nicholas Henderson was posted to Washington and within two weeks of moving was told that the new Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , was to visit , Mary Henderson wasted no time in asking Laura if she could supply certain fabrics at cost price with immediate delivery ; Laura naturally obliged . |
| 21 | But then if she could get set nights . |
| 22 | His Lordship begins by looking at direct discrimination under section l(l) ( a ) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and concludes that there is no doubt that in general to dismiss a woman because she is pregnant or to refuse to employ a woman of childbearing age because she may become pregnant is unlawful direct discrimination since childbearing and the capacity for childbearing are characteristics of the female sex . |
| 23 | ‘ We are appealing for the mum to come forward because she could need urgent medical attention . |
| 24 | I do n't blame the woman for doing as much as possible on television with in those advertisements because I think that woman have got only a short life in those ads because she 'd get bored with them . |
| 25 | Yet while she 's been pulling no punches as the dynamic young WPC , Jane 's been wrestling with the thorny dilemma of whether she can find lasting love with teacher Grant Mitchell played by Craig McLachlan . |
| 26 | Robyn swallowed and tried to work out whether she should feel relieved or even more depressed and decided after a moment on the latter . |
| 27 | For the first time , the queen mother was not given the chance to show whether she could exercise responsible control or not . |
| 28 | Mrs Oliver 's specific enquiry was whether she could knit single motifs on her Zippy De Luxe . |
| 29 | A woman who has given birth must immerse herself in a mikva before she can resume sexual relations with her husband . |
| 30 | ‘ He stole it from a girl , ’ she explained quickly , before she could feel intimidated . |