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 . |