Example sentences of "[that] she [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been undaunted even when Henry said he 'd wager that she dare not stay alone in the Lodge while he and Lettice explored the woods outside . |
| 2 | Part of the time he may almost be unaware that he is speaking to another person — after all Gila does n't understand English very well and it is unlikely that she would fully understand the references to Rupert Brooke and the poem ‘ The Old Vicarage , Grantchester ’ . |
| 3 | She dreamed of becoming a chef at school , but her domestic science teacher hated her and told her that she would never be a cook . |
| 4 | He kept clear when Lucy called in , kept his mouth shut unless Jay demanded his wisdom , advice that she would never take . |
| 5 | She had always sworn to herself that she would never impose on her daughter 's marriage 2. ) but she knows now that she can not possibly decline an invitation to spend the rest of her days at her son-in-law 's house . |
| 6 | He never realised , on that eventful day , that she would ‘ come into my arms ’ ( as he put it ) and stay there for so many years , adding in no small degree to the legends of love which keep the world sane and hopeful . |
| 7 | She felt that she would like to take up life drawing . |
| 8 | Not quite quickly enough Olive tried to shut out a second thought : that she would never , could never , have married an Englishman . |
| 9 | Not that she would have seen it as any sacrifice that she had neither husband nor child . |
| 10 | It was expected that she would show sympathy with the white settler minority associated with Ian Smith 's Rhodesia Front and propose a deal between him and the near-puppet government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa . |
| 11 | They were unanimous that she would not be right for him . |
| 12 | They feared that she would be seen as ( indeed is ) abrasive and lacking compassion . |
| 13 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 14 | She had a clear and frightening premonition that she would not be able to manage it . |
| 15 | She was shocked herself , but that shock was muted by the greater shock of realising that even now she was not certain that she would keep the appointment she had made for the morning . |
| 16 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 17 | But it was not to Rachel that she would go , but to her mummy . |
| 18 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |
| 19 | Maggie could not depend on Phoebe and knew that she would not . |
| 20 | She must look at two other things , hard and solid , so that she would be strong for the battle ahead . |
| 21 | He told her that she would not be able to let go of him , that his power was deep , deep in her bones and she was bound to him for ever . |
| 22 | She pushed back her chair and stood up abruptly ; she was terrified that she would sway , topple and crash to the ground . |
| 23 | After a moment she realised that she would have to change ; there was no way she was going out to meet Hermione in her mother 's elderly and considerably over-large tracksuit . |
| 24 | To acknowledge that she could not and never would ask Maggie for the mothering that she would give to her own mother . |
| 25 | Out of the many false starts her life had made she felt they were witnessing this pure beginning that she would seize and make true . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , at least you 'll have someone to meet you at Euston , ’ Rose said softly to Maggie who already knew that she would be met . |
| 27 | She played with the choices during the remaining days allowed her , knowing in her heart that she would be forced to take the safe path into the civil service . |
| 28 | A community nurse was visiting her so that she would n't get too lonely and depressed . |
| 29 | She wore her bridal clothes and jewellery : this was how her mother had sent her , for the first time , from her home , taking care that every detail of her ornaments should be perfect hoping , praying that she would be happy . |
| 30 | The Galiaras were told that she would be put on a plane at 3.30 pm . |