Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The support she may win in the crisis , where minor disagreements are sunk in the face of a much disliked enemy , can evaporate in everyday disputes , where the Prime Minister 's views must compete with many other acceptable views . |
| 2 | Then she must sit in the sun before hauling it back up and altogether I was enraged and wished I was in a condition to show her how it should be done . |
| 3 | She grabbed the wrap and hugged it round her , agonisingly aware of the swollen-eyed wreck she must look in the brightness . |
| 4 | Acting for a seller , who may be at risk of heavy damages payable to a disappointed buyer , the seller should be asked explicitly whether anyone else has an interest in the property : if so , that person 's written consent to the sale should be obtained , or he or she should join in the contract for sale to declare and relinquish his or her interest , if any . |
| 5 | Chen looked past Axel momentarily , lifting his chin , indicating to Wang Ti that she should wait in the other room , then he looked back at Axel , his face creased with concern , his voice suddenly softer , more sympathetic . |
| 6 | A manager 's lack of awareness of how he or she should bend in the wind is a sign of poor intelligence or insensitivity . |
| 7 | Jean would appreciate a note from you about what royalties she might expect in the near future , remembering she 's had a 500 advance . |
| 8 | The roars and cheers of the crowd covered any sound she made and , like a wraith , she made for the stairs , sweating even in the bleak February cold at the thought of who she might meet in the unknown upstairs . |
| 9 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 10 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 11 | Oh I expect she 'll go in the paper shop wo n't you Claire ? |
| 12 | She 'll get in the way wo n't she dad ? |
| 13 | Then she laid down as many of the others as she could fit in the space . |
| 14 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 15 | She could sit in the armchairs : Marie had seen her . |
| 16 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |
| 17 | If she was good , maybe ‘ soon ’ would be sooner still and she could dance in the meanings … . |
| 18 | He looked calmly , almost — as far as she could tell in the light that poured from the house onto the terrace — amusedly at her . |
| 19 | Her head shot up — it was all of her that she could move in the confined space — and blue eyes locked with sleepy brown ones . |
| 20 | She wished she could stand in the night and laugh , but already she had been heard . |
| 21 | She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere . |
| 22 | ONE of our bar staff recently came into the kitchen to ask if she could look in the soup kettle to see what colour the soup was . |
| 23 | Ever-loyal Leigh says that 's grossly unfair on a woman who proved she could act in the movie Madame Sousatzka and that she could sing and dance in the film version of Thirties musical The Boyfriend . |
| 24 | She could lie in the sun ; the wind could blow all over her , even , with careful positioning , the neglected places under her arms . |
| 25 | She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows . |
| 26 | At least she could revel in the bright meanings in which Friend had painted her , had accepted her . |
| 27 | What little hair he had shone with a silver sheen in the lamplight and she could see in the crumpled , brick-red face , the likeness of Stephen . |
| 28 | Here I am , replied the person she could see in the chair . |
| 29 | All she could see in the gloom was the high stone wall of some building . |
| 30 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |