Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only she could get a look , see what they were up to … |
| 2 | Perhaps she ought to take a break . |
| 3 | Or perhaps she would paint a picture of Oliver and it would be hung in the National Gallery and everyone would come and look at it and weep because it was so beautiful . |
| 4 | Perhaps she should sleep a while , and recover some more . |
| 5 | Perhaps she should engineer a meeting with Veronica ? |
| 6 | Perhaps she should see a doctor if she is feeling particularly stressed out . |
| 7 | Perhaps she should buy a copy of Spare Rib , and see if it still carried adverts for consciousness-raising groups . |
| 8 | Though Ms Armstrong is intelligent and good at her job , perhaps she should join a chorus line instead . |
| 9 | Perhaps she 'd slide a copy of Oliver Twist into the bread bin and have a chinwag about good old Charles with her toast . |
| 10 | At six months old , she 's already visited three mills — perhaps she will attend a formulation meeting by the time she 's two ? |
| 11 | Look at her all sweet and innocent , and when I turn away she 'll nick a chip I can see you sit down ! |
| 12 | Slogging away at the military hospital , sickened by the pain she saw and more muddled than ever , she decided that when the war was over she would become a tramp . |
| 13 | On the other hand , it was such a likely place for her romantic-minded young sister to frequent , and the sooner she found Suzie , the sooner she could put a stretch of the North Sea between herself and the clear-eyed Scandinavian whose presence she found so unnerving . |
| 14 | Tell her firmly that you fear if she does n't pull herself together soon she 'll have a drink problem and suggest she seeks help from her GP who can refer her to a psychiatrist . |
| 15 | From somewhere she could hear a lecturer droning ; maybe it needed speeding up a little . |
| 16 | No , but like she might have a minute while she 's having her din , the they 're really busy you know in there ! |
| 17 | The beach shelved up to green slopes , and quite near she could see a forest begin . |
| 18 | The room she was using was at the back of the house , and as she got up and walked over to the window to look out she could see a panorama of fields lying lush and green under a cloudless May sky . |
| 19 | So far she 'd run a mind-movie of Malvern with Elgar , the Outer Hebrides with Mendelssohn , Box Hill with Vivaldi , Santa Cruz with The Beach Boys , Baltimore with Laurie Anderson , and Corfu with Grieg . |
| 20 | Minutes they had been together and yet she felt that if he walked away out of her life now she would feel a loss that could n't be explained . |
| 21 | She looked again for Pete , but Pete was no longer there ; and now she could hear a scattering of spontaneous applause — applause ! — and a few cheers and whistles which told her that the host had finally arrived on the scene . |
| 22 | Lina was reluctant to leave a happy secure home , but now she will have a cottage of her own , with hot water and an indoor toilet and cooker , and grazing space for a couple of goats and many chickens . |
| 23 | ‘ But now she will get a lot more than that . ’ |
| 24 | She had a heavily lined face , a prominent , almost hawk-like nose , but she had kindly eyes and every so often she would display a vein of sharp humour that suggested her family had to keep their shoes clean when they approached her little parlour . |
| 25 | Quite often she 'd make a grab , I 'd move with her and there would be a tug'o'war , ending up with the food breaking or her giving up . |
| 26 | Yeah well she might have a paper one . |
| 27 | aye , well she used to have a paper round |
| 28 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 29 | From here she could get a glimpse of the houses : ‘ luxury ’ newly-built bungalows , double garages , big picture windows , young trees , landscaped gardens with lawns so smooth and green they could have been carpets . |
| 30 | Alternatively she can propose a toast to the family of the bridegroom , or if they are not present , to the guests . |