Example sentences of "[vb past] she [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believed she hoped it would happen , ’ said Primaflora . |
| 2 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 3 | Once more they could reveal themselves to each other — not just physically , because with every gesture she made she knew she would reveal the one thing he must never know — the fact that she loved him . |
| 4 | And when the train started she wished she could close her cars too , because Nick stood at the window and sang . |
| 5 | ‘ After Dad died she promised we would visit Italy together , but somehow we never did . |
| 6 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 7 | Nor did she think she could hide anything from this man with the golden eyes . |
| 8 | Nor , when their parents had already helped them more than enough with furniture and carpets and the like when they had first moved in , did she think she could take any more from them . |
| 9 | Nor did she feel she could approach her own family for assistance . |
| 10 | Did she say you can use a dictionary ? |
| 11 | How many did she say you could do |
| 12 | So did she say she could get some ? |
| 13 | Did she imagine they 'd accept her ? |
| 14 | Did she imagine she could run away from Alice , just like that ? |
| 15 | ‘ There were times when she said she wished she could get rid of these aches and pains , ’ said Mr Bowyer , who also found a suicide note from his wife . |
| 16 | He said she feared she would look like a money-grabber if she went to court to get the possessions after the divorce so he agreed to sign them over . |
| 17 | She was quiet and calm , and did n't talk much ( I was supposed to do the talking ) and she said she thought I should come every week , and told me how much it would cost . |
| 18 | I thought she 'd be shocked but she was n't , although she said she thought I should try to forget him because it would only mean unhappiness for me . ’ |
| 19 | I rang again and the agent said she thought I 'd put the phone down . ’ |
| 20 | At eighteen he was tending bar in San Francisco when an actress , taken with his clean-cut good looks , said she thought she could get him a scene shifter 's job at the theatre . |
| 21 | The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence . |
| 22 | What had she hoped he would say ? |
| 23 | Though , that apart , she regarded the offer as a typically Simon over-the-top gesture , and felt sure that , had she said she would journey to Mexico or Hungary or wherever , the free travel would have been abruptly rescinded . |
| 24 | What on earth else had she thought he 'd come here to tell her ? |
| 25 | Though , had she thought she might get out of his car and leave him without so much as a word being said between them , she found she was mistaken . |