Example sentences of "[subord] she [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left home as soon as she could , McLeish observed , instead of starting where she could work from home . |
| 2 | She had , after all , done her homework as thoroughly — if anything more thoroughly — than she would have in order to realise either of those goals . |
| 3 | ( The following week the goal is again to lose half a pound of fat ( 0.25 kg ) , so she would hope on Week 2 to be below her starting weight by at least 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) on most days ) . |
| 4 | He asked that she be given six months ' grace at Althorp so she could adapt to life without him . |
| 5 | Bernadette Quli asked Carmen , who lives opposite her , to look after Farrah so she could return to work . |
| 6 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 7 | I said oh not yet , cos she could start at Easter , her little one will be two then , Simon , he 'll be two . |
| 8 | The Queen Mother is of course impeccably bred , though she 's failed to make it to the last 3 Chelsea Flower Shows and looks as if she 'll remain at home again this year . |
| 9 | All before Dorothea had a chance to ask if she would come to tea to meet Florence Ames again . |
| 10 | Some reason why he was watching her cautiously as if she would erupt with anger . |
| 11 | And that if she must choose between love and work , she should never hesitate : it is work , a woman 's own creative work , that gives her the only real satisfaction and makes her life worth living . |
| 12 | The different ages of her life seemed to exist simultaneously , as if she could move from age to age according to how she felt . |
| 13 | If she could look at meat hanging in a butcher 's , the fieldworker was told when she was accompanying policemen to a postmortem , she could look at dead bodies . |
| 14 | And now she would never be able to imagine them again because she would think of Finn 's wet kisses . |
| 15 | The Queen of the Night is good at ‘ house-hunting ’ and knows almost immediately whether she will feel at ease in a particular abode . |
| 16 | But he bowed his head , and made Rosalba , practised in modesty , worry whether she should curtsey in response . |
| 17 | She was still feeling a little anxious when she thought of all she would have to do before she could get to bed that night . |
| 18 | She was murdered before she could call for help . |