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

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1 Kathleen was kind but she would not bring herself to visit and Dorothea knew she ought not to have asked .
2 However she was honest enough to feel that , as she had begun the courting by sending him the valentine , she ought not to refuse him now .
3 She knew she ought not to agree , but she felt guilty about the accident , and surely a public meeting could n't hurt ?
4 She ought not to be left , and if her breathing gets worse , prop her up .
5 Judgment was given for the defendant ; the jury had found that she was not negligent and the court held that she ought not to be liable for an extraordinary act of nature which she could not reasonably anticipate .
6 She ought not to be going , but she could not help herself .
7 He was a man whom , by rights , she ought not even to like .
8 Perhaps she ought not to have spoken so bluntly , even though he was asking for it .
9 She knew she ought not to mind his advances — they were only natural really , and in a way a compliment .
10 I 'm sure she ought not to , but you know Joanna .
11 In Wildfowl Hall who told her that really she ought not to have left her husband
12 She ought n't to want him to wake properly , but she did .
13 She ought n't to learn it from the police or the television news . ’
14 She ought n't to be as far down river as this .
15 Perhaps she ought simply to go home and bolt herself in her room for ever , like Rochester 's mad wife .
16 But for the life of her she could not behave as she ought when she stood among the rubble to which her life had been reduced .
17 She ought never to have trusted him .
18 She ought therefore to slip on the fur boots … put a little hay in the bottom of the coach …
19 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 .
20 ‘ If she may n't have a dram , ’ James said , ‘ What might I tempt her with ?
21 ‘ And she may not want to talk about it .
22 She may not come .
23 She may not have any speech , but she has no problems in making her feelings clear : she wails at the memory .
24 However , she may not cope with another supplemented runner , LINE OF THUNDER ( nap 3.10 ) .
25 Many now realised , for the first time , that she may not be with them for that much longer .
26 She may not be brilliant , but she tells a straightforward story .
27 If he had told Mrs Wilson this and even if she had believed him , she may not have wished to help him .
28 You could even say that you should worry if a child reaches the age of seven or eight without ever using swear words , since he or she may not be listening to people perhaps not even to you .
29 She may not formulate these questions consciously , but her planning and teaching will reflect the influence of these considerations .
30 As she may not be a particularly gregarious person she will experience great loneliness after her husband 's death , and her need will be for the company of her family and a few special friends to see her through this difficult period .
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