Example sentences of "[to-vb] that she [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that he had minded in the least , for if he had a daughter as rich as Gemma and a fellow like Tristan Gage were to come along he 'd take all the necessary steps himself to see that she could never be cheated . |
| 2 | He urged her to acknowledge that she could quickly end the dispute by allowing it go to arbitration . |
| 3 | He would go on sleeping badly , and opening people 's luggage , and given great luck he would even keep on living with Sam , though it was difficult to imagine that she would seriously consent to give up such a trophy , however little genuine pleasure she had from the child . |
| 4 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 5 | She allowed herself a little to wish that she could sometimes , however indirectly , speak to , even just be with , Ludens ; but he was now , as Gildas told her and as she could see , obsessed with Marcus . |
| 6 | Even his fond parents do n't call him that when he rampages through the flat creating mayhem , and Joyce was recently heard to declare that she 'd rather do Rob 's tax returns than look after the baby . |
| 7 | When she tried to explain that she would now have to live on five shillings a week , she could not restrain a few tears . |
| 8 | She did n't like to say that she would sooner lick a toad . |
| 9 | She wanted to say that she would quite happily go and dine on her own in Florence so that they could be alone together , but Mrs Wallington pre-empted her . |
| 10 | He had to admit that she could still ride a lot better than he could . |
| 11 | Patrick 's mother had died twenty years before in the County Donegal , trying to prove that she could still climb to the top of a mountain called Muckish . |