Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 He gave a great sigh and if she had not known him better she might have thought , as he slumped forward , that he had expired on the spot .
2 Kate was curiously fascinating , but mixed in with the fascination was a sort of fear ; and over the last few months she had made it quite clear that the less she had to do with him , the better she would like it .
3 He had not budged , and if she had n't known better she would have said that he was jealous , but , of course , the idea was ridiculous .
4 If she had n't known better she 'd have thought he 'd been drinking .
5 The sooner the business fair was over and she could fly back to London , the better she 'd sleep at nights …
6 If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense !
7 The sooner this masquerade was over , the better she 'd like it .
8 Better she should be with a youngster nearer her own age than with him , who anyway fancied Rose Hilaire .
9 You may be sitting with her one evening , quite peacefully , when suddenly she will stand up and say : ‘ Listen !
10 Suddenly she could almost hear her mother giggling .
11 It seemed that although sheer determination had kept Julia alive until the wedding , suddenly she could fight no longer .
12 Then he smiled , and thanked her in that tearingly familiar voice , and suddenly she could hardly bear to think that she had lost him .
13 And suddenly she could n't escape quickly enough .
14 Obviously aware of the moment when he 'd won the battle , Dane released her hands , and her arms slid of their own accord round his back , pulling him closer still , as if suddenly she could n't get enough of him .
15 Now suddenly she could feel the pleasure such imaginings had aroused uncurling in a warm spiral in the pit of her stomach .
16 Suddenly she could feel it pressing against hers .
17 Suddenly she could n't sit still any longer , and jumping up , she paced to the window of her sitting-room and peered out .
18 And then suddenly she 'd say oh I do n't feel very hungry .
19 However much she may enjoy such pursuits , there will be times when she would actually rather wander the streets unaccompanied .
20 However much she might have wanted to remain aloof from publicity the female press corps had already identified her as the ‘ Woman Head ’ of a multi-million dollar international corporation and , through the same lens , saw her therefore as challenging a man 's world .
21 She was in no mood to display starry-eyed fascination , however much she might feel it .
22 However much she might have set herself up to be hurt , she told herself defiantly , selecting white Bermudas and a cool Chinese-style silk blouse from her small selection of clothes , however much of a fool she might have made of herself , she would n't change a thing .
23 I used to think she did this because she loved my father so much she could n't wait for him to come home .
24 there 's hardly enough for two in and then she has to do another two only , only she ca n't pour it in after it 's .
25 Willingly she would have surrendered the gift of consciousness if only she might drift like these in a blind passion of being , exempt from question ; yet even as she yearned wistfully so , another voice inside her agitated mind was whispering the old caveat from the Rosarium : that all error arose from failure to begin with the proper substance , from a proud forgetfulness that the magisterium is Nature 's work and not the worker 's .
26 Her marriage to Archibald earl of Angus — whose name , with unwitting appropriateness , she spelt ‘ Anguisshe ’ — and subsequent divorce , combined with her demands for a place in political life , produced on one occasion the agonized response that she might have it if only she would be ‘ a good Scots woman ’ , and created continuing and profoundly irritating headaches for those who were trying to control Scottish affairs .
27 More a portrait like you see in photographers ’ windows ; reclining on a divan or something — only she would be asleep . ’
28 If only she would join with him now , perhaps together they could find a way through this terrible situation .
29 She asked , knowing the importance of the question , knowing , too , that only she would dare ask it , ‘ Will you be very disappointed if you do n't get the job ? ’
30 As for her daughter , Madeleine had shown no signs of dropping Lionel Dunbar , and a quiet word with his mother had confirmed that he had every intention of marrying Madeleine if only she would agree to accept him .
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