Example sentences of "she [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she ought simply to go home and bolt herself in her room for ever , like Rochester 's mad wife . |
| 2 | She ought never to have trusted him . |
| 3 | She ought therefore to slip on the fur boots … put a little hay in the bottom of the coach … |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 5 | Advice and support at this time could aim to minimise the chances of a girl returning to an unhappy discordant home and to parents with whom she may largely have lost touch . |
| 6 | After making first animal feed ( korm ) and only later cabbage soup ( shchi ) for the family , she may finally turn to the work that occupies the womenfolk from November until Lent — spinning flax from that blue-flowered , frail-leaved plant plucked by the root in handfuls in the August of 1921 . |
| 7 | Or she may simply be trying to snub President Cory Aquino , who refuses to allow Marcos back , even through he is dead ; and has barred Imelda too . |
| 8 | Appropriate feedback is vital in the patient 's relearning process , so he receives praise only when it is deserved : if he fails in any way , the physiotherapist remains encouraging and positive about it , but shows him how and why he went wrong , or she may simply leave that task for the moment and return to it later , when the patient can concentrate and get it right . |
| 9 | She may simply be sitting down there contentedly having a good meal , or sleeping one off . |
| 10 | Regardless of the experience of your senior nurse momentary aberrations do occur , particularly under pressure , and he or she may simply not have realised the implications of what was being asked . |
| 11 | Or she may simply have opted for motherhood without the father which normally completes the traditional ‘ set ’ . |
| 12 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 13 | The Queen will certainly need a glossary , but even then she may well be uncertain as to just how much Kelman likes his unlikely lad . |
| 14 | She may well succeed . |
| 15 | Although it may seem that her greatest loss may be that of her husband , it is usually recognized that she may well be unable to look at the implications of his death until she has dealt with those that happened before he died . |
| 16 | If the therapist had approached the problem in this way she may well have avoided alienating herself from both the patient and her parents and thereby becoming largely ineffective . |
| 17 | And it brought home to her the fact that some children can not cope with maths , however hard they try — a realisation she may well be glad of when she fulfils her ambitions to become a fully-fledged teacher . |
| 18 | She may well have been right about this . |
| 19 | After all , she may well have told her family and friends that I 'm a nice boy — although a Jew . |
| 20 | If she is very advanced in years and no longer interested in cooking , she may well be happy to stay out of it completely , apart from making the odd cup of tea or coffee , and be pleased to have her meals prepared for her . |
| 21 | She may well have a thing or two to teach the Goldsmiths ' graduates about handling the demands of the art world and media . |
| 22 | But in fact , he or she may well be in a privileged position . |
| 23 | She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage . |
| 24 | When the other person is less formal and more forthcoming , he or she may well feel compromised by their self-disclosure which has not been reciprocated . |
| 25 | She may well have been right . |
| 26 | He came to live at Maureen 's , too , and she may well breed him with Rusty — if we 're right in thinking Rusty is a female , that is ! |
| 27 | Curiously , the female will help each male defend his territory from a neighbour , even though a few minutes later she may well move into the neighbour 's territory and switch sides . |
| 28 | Now older and perhaps a little more clay-wise , with a win already this year over Monica Seles at Key Biscayne and with her father Stefano as her coach once again , she may well be settled enough to go all the way for the first time , which of course , would be a remarkable achievement for a 16 year old . |
| 29 | Only too true , reflected Cadfael , for she may well have some strictures to level at us , no less than at Ramsey . |
| 30 | If a middle-aged housewife is incapable of managing her home-life because of perpetual problems with her " nerves " for which she is-on medicinal treatment from her doctor , she may well be chemically dependant on alcohol or prescription drugs or both . |