Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 With one part of her bemused and disorientated mind she knew that she must call a halt — right now !
32 And she must have a name .
33 " She must have a wire !
34 She must have a family , maybe even a boyfriend , all of them frantic , imagining her missing , even drowned .
35 Emerging once more into the glare , she put a hand to her throbbing head , and decided that she must have a cup of tea .
36 However , she must have a minimum of £12.65 pocket money .
37 If she is simply referring to degrees of context-dependency , then she must establish a scale on which such things can be measured .
38 as if , for a young woman , the quest for identity is not painful and confusing enough , she must find a way of lifting the burden everyone implicitly assumes she will carry .
39 Instead she was told she must find a mate to make a site near by and start a new race of Callanish eagles .
40 She must find a teacher .
41 Her swollen lips burned and she knew she must look a mess .
42 She stared at the receding shoreline and wondered if she should make a jump for it .
43 As that she should make a move .
44 It baffled her as to why she should feel a tingle in her veins just because Piers Morrison was lying only a few inches away from her .
45 Perhaps she should engineer a meeting with Veronica ?
46 Perhaps she should sleep a while , and recover some more .
47 If I can get near Mum I must tell her that she should do a spot of witnessing to the woman across from her .
48 She should wear a crown , ’ said Melanie , remembering the Noah 's Ark lioness .
49 The agreement stated that ‘ in consideration of such dfesire ’ the executors would convey the cottage to the widow for her life or so long as she should continue a widow .
50 Maybe she should say a prayer herself .
51 Before she should have a chance to wake and discover the edenwort , Henry got to work on the supper .
52 Johnson met Mrs Riddoch 's little niece , Stuart Dallas , and , with his voice deliberately booming and hollow , told her he was a giant , that he slept in a cave , ‘ and had a bed in the rock , and she should have a bed cut opposite it ’ .
53 He always spoke as if he was satisfied that she should have a life of her own .
54 I think maybe at first she should have a morning meeting , or a weekly meeting , to discuss the menus for the following week .
55 She should put a stop to this now .
56 Though Ms Armstrong is intelligent and good at her job , perhaps she should join a chorus line instead .
57 She should learn a skill .
58 We could have found somewhere cheaper , or taken up Richard 's mother 's offer that she should buy a house in the suburbs and share it with us , but Richard had theories about the importance of a good , central address , as well as about the waste of nervous energy involved in travelling .
59 Perhaps she should buy a copy of Spare Rib , and see if it still carried adverts for consciousness-raising groups .
60 The highest my mum goes is forty pounds cos she does n't think she should spend a lot of money on a pair of trainers that wo n't last .
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