Example sentences of "she [modal v] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 She could put up with that if it got her to a city , or within reach of a ve-hickle she could scav .
32 Maybe she could coast for a little while .
33 she likes plenty , you know , and er , she did take a course on baby minding and she passed everything like , she could baby mind
34 But there , from any notes , she felt that she could piece together what had taken place .
35 Yes well my grandmother I think she lived nearby and she 'd sort of pop in .
36 He was going to kiss her , she thought wildly , he was going to bend her back over his arm and put his mouth to her throat , and she — she would close her eyes , she would arch her body to his …
37 She would fracture that glass bowl which kept her imprisoned once and for all .
38 Every day of the season she would travel in her carriage and six to Ashdown Park on top of the downs , where she would course for hares with her magnificent greyhounds and walk for twenty-five miles .
39 Norm had to call her , then shake her , and she would stagger downstairs and hang like an exhausted alcoholic over a clutched mug of coffee .
40 Outraged by the bloody repression , Dai Qing publicly resigned from the Communist Party and said that she would distance herself from politics to concentrate on her writings .
41 But this Anne Mowbray would stop at nothing — she would chance all to be alone with him she loved best in the world ; on one throw of the dice …
42 No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim .
43 She would shuttle up with her equipment as soon as I got established just outside Uulaa 's territorial space .
44 As she plodded through her notes she decided that at the end of the month she would hand in her notice , and on the day she left she would brandish Elise 's diary before his eyes .
45 I was convinced she would muck the whole thing up !
46 They entered the house at lightning speed , with Robyn only too aware of the expensive hallway , the elegant furnishings , convinced that at any moment she would disgrace herself ; to vomit now , before she reached a bathroom , would be the final humiliation .
47 She would only bewilder him quite as much as she would distress him .
48 Tomorrow she would book another ride ; she would fit in a swim before breakfast , possibly before dinner as well ; and the day after that she would walk — thirty miles would be a reasonable target this time .
49 She would book in for another night at the hotel and leave in the early morning .
50 and , and er she would sort of say oh and here 's a theatre make a wee bit effort yes that might be the answer
51 She will lunch with selected guests in the new council offices , and an hour beforehand they are all turned out in their best suits and dresses fidgeting in anticipation .
52 In town crier fashion he bellowed : ‘ I call upon these persons here present to witness that I , Darren John Johnson , being of sound mind , do ask my beloved Sharon Samantha Edwards , if she will plight her troth unto me . ’
53 He bellowed : ‘ I call upon these persons here present to witness that I , Darren John Johnson , being of sound mind , do ask my beloved Sharon Samantha Edwards , if she will plight her troth unto me ? ’
54 In that case , she will carpenter or go on a dig .
55 What she may endure now is , however , nothing to what she will lace very soon .
56 So if a child gets spoken to in a fairly direct way by imagine a female child by her father and the same female child gets spoken to in a not so direct way be her mother , then even of this The child is likely to both version , she 'll grow up using female variety because she 's she can affiliate herself with her mother and I mean she knows that is the variety she 's expected to use .
57 He trill is in good working order , she can float a quiet top A as at the end of ‘ Senza mamma ’ , and though she had a problem with breath-control she can sill manage skilfully in such testing pieces as the Freischütz arias .
58 I love the way that she can edge in to a theme with extreme gentleness .
59 CALL TRUDY CULROSS ON THE SHE CAN HELPLINE
60 She has found that she can interest modern teenagers , and develop attitudes of stillness and attentiveness and reflectiveness , through detailed study of certain masterpieces .
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