Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she ought to do is , I know what I 'd do is leave Anthony and Maria and they can put them down and go and see |
| 2 | Perhaps , in spite of the fact that she did need the money , what she ought to do was just catch the first plane back home . |
| 3 | But knowing what she ought to do was one thing — putting it into action seemed to be quite another . |
| 4 | And the way she put it , she ought to have been alive today , she could have taught them how to tell people about sex . |
| 5 | She managed this better than I did , presumably having had practice and certainly having the advantage of knowing in advance that she stuck out about eighteen inches in front of where she ought to have been . |
| 6 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 7 | What a damn shame , he thought , what a tragedy that she was a woman instead of what she ought to have been . |
| 8 | Hell , she ought to have been downstairs by now . |
| 9 | She ought to have been on the job , she thought , ferreting out facts about Hereward and Amy . |
| 10 | She ought to have been struck down by a thunderbolt , Ronni thought later . |
| 11 | very pretty and er , it looks as if she ought to have been up the disco having a dance , any way |
| 12 | ‘ She may 've been murdered , ’ said Constance . |
| 13 | To ensure that any capital she may have is being invested wisely . |
| 14 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 15 | While she may have been forced to permit some seepage of sovereignty to imperial institutions on some issues , she was never prepared to give ground on things that really mattered as , in the same way , Germany is not prepared to give ground on monetary union . |
| 16 | Or , of course , if she is muzzled , she may have been killed by other predators against which she would have had no defence . |
| 17 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 18 | It is thought she may have been punched or stamped on . |
| 19 | She may have been scarred for life , ’ she said . |
| 20 | She may have been scarred for life , ’ she said . |
| 21 | She may have been totally unprepared but she still managed to win her first round match quite comfortably . |
| 22 | As a literal Earth-mother , she may have been the prototype of the Rhea of the later myths , but we also know that at least in the fourteenth century BC the Minoans knew her as Eleuthia . |
| 23 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 24 | An additional financial burden for a woman in situations such as these may be that of arrears which have accrued , of which she may have been previously unaware ( Ginsburg , 1979 , p. 128 ) . |
| 25 | Inwardly she may have been nervous , outwardly she appeared calm , relaxed and ready to have fun . |
| 26 | By allowing Tepilit to engage in the formalities of gift exchange , she may have been able to observe at close quarters how it worked , but she was also entering into the drama . |
| 27 | It is obviously irrelevant to speculate on what if anything was in the mind of the clerk or other subordinate officer who actually received the money , or in the mind of the officer ( whoever he or she may have been ) who paid it into the bank to the defendants ' credit . |
| 28 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
| 29 | She may have been one of the Bristol Seekers from whom many Quakers at this time were recruited . |
| 30 | She may have been the Elizabeth Mansell christened 26 December 1762 at St Botolph , London , the daughter of John Mansell and his wife Susannah . |