Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] she [modal v] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been looking forward to this session ; yet , deep down , there was a contrary twinge niggling at her sexuality that insisted she might enjoy it . |
| 2 | Devious devil ; she should have known better than to think she could fool him . |
| 3 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 4 | She drew a line down the centre of Stella 's nose with a stick of No.5 and gestured she should rub it in . |
| 5 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |
| 6 | As a matter of fact' — he frowned in concentration — ‘ I do recall her putting a matchbook in her handbag at one point and saying she would pass it on to Heather because she collected the things . |
| 7 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 8 | ‘ She set higher store by emotional security ’ than her sister , ‘ and thought she would find it with a man soft-hearted and caring and pliant , far removed , as she thought , from father 's toughness and uncontrollability . ’ |
| 9 | Then Mum thanked them and said she would pay them later for their trouble and invited them to the funeral . |
| 10 | He asked whether she would mind calling him a cab and she dangled car keys and said she would drive him herself . |
| 11 | When he said too readily , ‘ Yeah , could be , ’ she knew the blue haze of his need to reassure her , and wished she could believe him . |
| 12 | She agreed but thought she 'd record it anyway , just in case . |