Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] she [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on they sped so swiftly that she might almost have cried out with Ostanes , less in trepidation than delight , ‘ Save me , O God , for I stand between two exalted brilliances … |
| 2 | Dalgliesh remembered her whispered confidence to Theresa in the car , the child 's intent face and brief transforming smile , and thought that she understood one child at least far better than she would probably claim . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ The rig was in about six feet of water , much deeper than she would normally go . |
| 4 | Close by , in peaceful PAPPLEWICK village , Robin Hood halted the marriage of one Ellen to an ageing knight so that she could instead marry the lovelorn Alan-a-Dale . |
| 5 | Antoine faltered , sagging against her so that she could barely sustain his weight . |
| 6 | Blindly she moved forward , panic crashing now through every barrier she had managed , through her twenty precarious years , to erect against it , flooding her whole mind , sweeping away her sense of reason and reality , so that she could already feel the coarse fustian of prison clothing and workhouse clothing against her body as she ran , could feel her skin crawl from every one of prison 's basic indignities , her stomach heave with revulsion . |
| 7 | His hands strayed down to a spot just below the first frill on her skirt and he pushed his hips against hers so that she could clearly feel the bulge between his legs . |
| 8 | In the final condition , the mother was hidden behind a metal screen so that she could neither see nor be seen by the pair in the observation room . |
| 9 | Presently she could see him again ; his head was erect , but his eyes were cast down so that she could only see the dark . |
| 10 | The man had stopped pacing now ; he was talking , at first quietly , so that she could only see his lips moving through a screen of ferns , then he began arguing , gesticulating , running through the phrases again and again like an actor in rehearsal , pleading with someone who was n't there . |
| 11 | He wrote the part so that she could always support herself in exile if she did n't speak the language . ’ |
| 12 | The necklace was a collar of dull silver , two hinged silver pieces knobbed with moonstones which snapped into place around her lean neck and rose up almost to her chin so that she could hardly move her head . |
| 13 | He came closer and sat beside her on the grass , close , so that she could hardly concentrate on what she was supposed to be saying . |
| 14 | ‘ Very poetic , my little tormenter , ’ he chided , tightening his arms even more so that she could hardly breathe . |
| 15 | Mrs Reynolds will need to be involved in this process in order to help relieve her anxieties and so that she can also support her husband . |
| 16 | A booster cushion raises a child up so that she can safely use an adult seat belt or a child harness . |
| 17 | Right , and so that she can still move |
| 18 | Mother is frowning and her hand is shaking so that she can hardly eat her desert , and I 've done that . |
| 19 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 20 | ‘ A great deal , ’ Hari spoke with more confidence than she felt , indeed , she was trembling inside and she could only hope her nervousness did n't show . |
| 21 | I offered them all glasses as well , and Angelica took one and went on bellyaching to all around her about how Steve had let her down and she should never have trusted the louse , and it was a tribute to her acting that there was a distinct drawing aside of skirts in the pursed mouths of those around her who were fed up with hearing about it . |
| 22 | Well there 's two up there so because she can only get one . |
| 23 | Perdita was trembling so badly that she could hardly zip up her boots . |
| 24 | Besides that she can hardly read and write and has a very dirty house and weird friends . |
| 25 | She knelt longer than she would normally have done , not out of devotion but to give him time to get away . |
| 26 | Not that she could entirely stop thinking about Joss Barnet . |
| 27 | Contrary to her words , she found the process fascinating , not that she 'd ever admit it to him ! |
| 28 | They were told a carefully graduated series of lies : first that their mother was staying in hospital for a while , then that she might not come home for a long time , and finally that she might never come back . |
| 29 | Thus while she may originally have thought of teaching children French , the bulk of her career has in fact consisted of teaching adults — her colleagues in developmental psychology , students , and teachers — how children 's minds develop and how this development might best be studied . |
| 30 | She would never forsake Tara , of course , just as she would never forget Fergus . |