Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter . |
| 2 | She thought she might be in Nevada , but it was hard to tell . |
| 3 | Well , she asked me to kiss her , which of course I did , and then she said maybe she would n't marry him ; that she thought she might be in love with me . |
| 4 | She said she had not complained at the paratroopers ' barracks because she knew she would be in trouble for being out of bounds . |
| 5 | She knew he would be in hospital a long time and wondered how they would manage if he ever came home . |
| 6 | She knew she would open it , but when she did it would be as if he were with her all over again , and she would suffer so … |
| 7 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |