Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from anything else , she wanted to recompense him in some way , although she doubted he would accept a reward . |
| 2 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 3 | She decided she would let a lawyer handle absolutely everything . |
| 4 | She vowed that if she survived she would build a monastery as thanks for her life being spared . |
| 5 | And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together . |
| 6 | She thought they might have a Christmas tree ; for the first non-ideological season for many years . |
| 7 | She thought she might try a purge . |
| 8 | Now , feeling the train grubbiness all over he– , she thought she might have a bath . |
| 9 | And they talked to her , most politely : the Martin man asked her when she was doing her Finals , and she told him , and he asked her what she was going to do then , and she said that she thought she would do a teacher 's training course . |
| 10 | ( My mother left South Africa and went to Lesotho when Lesotho became independent because she had become really depressed with South Africa and she thought she would find a niche and peace there . ) |
| 11 | She thought she could hear a noise . |
| 12 | As the terminal surface moved past her helmet , she thought she could see a fine structure to it , a lattice of irregular cells which pulsed and churned while she watched . |
| 13 | She thought she 'd get a good mark . |
| 14 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
| 15 | ‘ She thought you might see a link between the affair and the murder . ’ |
| 16 | She knew she would feel a good deal less proud when she told Alice about the penalty clause . |
| 17 | But , once upstairs , she knew she would have a job to get out again , especially if her father knew her destination . |
| 18 | She knew she ought to get a piece about him in a national newspaper . |
| 19 | While she knew she must resemble a ragamuffin , she did not appreciate the reminder . |
| 20 | Her swollen lips burned and she knew she must look a mess . |
| 21 | For a start she knew she must look a complete mess . |
| 22 | She knew it would give a nasty sting , but it would n't cut her flesh to ribbons . |
| 23 | But she knew it would take a while before the immeasurable hunger receded within her . |
| 24 | With Jerome out of the way and all that money for themselves , she felt they would have a much happier relationship … |
| 25 | Mrs Corney , of course , did not notice this , but when the beadle 's arm began to slide around her waist , she felt she must make a small protest . |
| 26 | She felt he must have a grudge of some kind against her and she felt very frightened . |
| 27 | Others , including Dame Millicent Faw-cett , never supported the idea of family allowances because , like Ramsay MacDonald , she feared they would have a detrimental effect on parental responsibility . |
| 28 | She said she could feel a shard of genius enter her soul with my seed ! |
| 29 | She said she 'd have a sherry , a nebulous drink itself , so I poured her as dark and sweet a one as I could find in the little tight tiny rows of sinister bottles , and while she drank it I put on trousers and sweater . |
| 30 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |