Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She ought to have seen he only wanted her money , and refused him , ’ said Retty . |
| 2 | Only one : nose ( for noise ) which seems worse than it is , because the misspelling has produced a rather comic word , and we may feel she ought to have recognised it as the word it is , rather than the word she meant it to be . |
| 3 | The tale was distressing to Ayling and she knew she ought to have curtailed it but she could not resist going on . |
| 4 | Presumably he thought she ought to have let him into her room to make love to her ! |
| 5 | ‘ She ought to have told him just before they went to church , ’ said Marian . |
| 6 | But she may have accepted it by now , put it to the back of her mind . ’ |
| 7 | If your employee is not entitled to SMP , you need to complete form SMP1 and give it to her together with any maternity certificate which she may have given you . |
| 8 | She said that she had got ‘ quite dependent ’ on Roger — I suppose she may have known him for about thirty-five years . |
| 9 | She may have told him but it did not stop the questions . |
| 10 | That was before she chose you , so she may have told you more than she intended . ’ |
| 11 | When she heard the grumbles of the county landowners after the announcement , she may have wished she had done . |
| 12 | She may have used the window as a convenient piece of misdirection , or she may have opened it to let Latimer in . |
| 13 | But the thing is she must 've seen him . |
| 14 | but she must 've told him |
| 15 | Yeah well by then you 'd , you 'd already messed him up , she must 've got him to sleep before she put him down in the cot did she ? |
| 16 | After all , she must have realised you 'd see the results , and wonder about the discrepancy . ’ |
| 17 | Until , in the end , Carrie began to think she must have made it all up , that she had just dreamed all those things he had said . |
| 18 | ‘ She must have missed it , ’ said Julia . |
| 19 | Of the driver it would be reasonable to say that she must have seen them but she has forgotten about the pigeons and just did n't notice the lights and roadworks . |
| 20 | She felt she must have seen it in a dream . |
| 21 | She must have seen it on some of the murdered woman 's belongings when you first entered the priory but she probably could not place it immediately . |
| 22 | She must have given it straight to Charles . ’ |
| 23 | She had a longish , plain face with a straight nose and almost no eyebrows ; she must have plucked them away in order to repaint them in higher up . |
| 24 | She did not move , though she must have heard him , so he sat down tentatively beside her . |
| 25 | But she must have heard me say so , because at seven she came down and said she 'd overlooked this marvellous Stockhausen concert on Two — well , I just put on my coat and flung out of the house … |
| 26 | I think she must have heard me because she ran off like the clappers towards the quay . ’ |
| 27 | She was n't a virgin anyway , she must have wanted it really . |
| 28 | I got changed in double quick time but she must have beaten me . |
| 29 | It then took me a while to realise the significance of it , but at last I remembered it had been around Dora Belle 's neck , the person who murdered Perk and she must have placed it in Perk 's hand when she buried her . |
| 30 | But she must have done it after they left ; she 'd have to , if she wanted to let the place . |