Example sentences of "that she [vb mod] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 Its pure white flanks , its fine , strong legs , its proud , aristocratic face ; all these combined to form an animal so beautiful , he had known at once that she would want it .
2 At the start she would rehearse arranging them with the nun so that she would do it well when she got to the Hogans , but as the weeks went by she grew in confidence .
3 She asked for her boys to be taken into care because she was terrified that she would do it again .
4 of ten , overnight , especially after a major row with her daughter , Marie 's mother , stricken with guilt , would swear to herself that she would make it up to Marie tomorrow : tomorrow , they would make a fresh start .
5 Because he believed that she would make it up , he knew she would , damn him .
6 To get her into a routine , I started leaving food out at the same time and place every day , always whistling the same tune , so that she would associate it with being fed .
7 She looked away and Trent thought for a moment that she would leave it alone , but then she looked back and asked quickly , to get it out , ‘ Did your mother leave him for your father ? ’
8 The doctor offered Rose slimming tablets to help her lose even more weight but he said he was not very hopeful that she would lose it from her legs .
9 She did not fear that she would lose it , because it was the world — her world , the reality that encased her .
10 He sensed that she would take it black and sugarless and he was right .
11 Henry had a feeling that she would take it well .
12 She said — or rather I did , to her solicitors — that she would consider it again in a year or so when everyone was calmer . ’
13 Jenna left the meal to keep hot and went to freshen up , telling herself that she would consider it coldly and then decide , but in reality she was churned up inside , a desire to hide from this uppermost , but a deep-seated and almost morbid curiosity urging her to go to France and see the man who was nothing to her at all , not even a face to remember .
14 I thought I would dig it up again , and put it in her bed , all covered with mould , so that she would know it was dead , but after a while she stopped crying , so I left it there .
15 Tomorrow would be another day , and she would make damned sure that she would get it off on the right footing .
16 Confined to a prison , she knew that she would find it unbearable to hear the news from her former circle .
17 He fed her this first taste of himself in absolute confidence that she would accept it , and an anguished sound came from deep in Maria 's throat as she accommodated him , mindlessly obedient to the command of his mouth .
18 Promising herself that she would explore it all properly later , she set off to find accommodation .
19 Not that she would like it .
20 Isabel Lavender , now sixty-eight years old , sat before the mirror , the pretty amethyst brooch at her neck , and felt that she ought to have it , for it was owed to her , it was a little enough thing to covet .
21 There was just a chance , anyway , that she might stop it before it crashed against the arch .
22 That she might leave it too late , does not seem to have occurred to her .
23 Her marriage to Archibald earl of Angus — whose name , with unwitting appropriateness , she spelt ‘ Anguisshe ’ — and subsequent divorce , combined with her demands for a place in political life , produced on one occasion the agonized response that she might have it if only she would be ‘ a good Scots woman ’ , and created continuing and profoundly irritating headaches for those who were trying to control Scottish affairs .
24 So she thought that she might take it on trust .
25 I doubt that she 'll do it until you 've got through your exams
26 ‘ If I can signal a message there 's a wonderful chance that she 'll see it !
27 I would like to add another Oscar , but I 'm worried that she will tear it fin from fin .
28 Leith waited , very much wanting to invite Travis to join her and Naylor on their walk , but one glance at Naylor — who seemed determined not to invite Travis himself — told her that she 'd regret it if she did .
29 She went rapidly through the story , and remembered that she 'd read it at the time .
30 Rainbow admits that she 'd find it just a bit too cosy .
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