Example sentences of "that she [vb mod] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't like to say that she would sooner lick a toad . |
| 2 | When Gloria had got over the first shock of Saul 's horrifying death , she put the warehouse up for sale , together with the contents of the ship-chandlers shop on the ground floor , confident that she would soon find a purchaser . |
| 3 | I hoped that she would then develop a massive guilt complex , but unfortunately she did n't . |
| 4 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 5 | She began to consider the fact that she was over twenty-one and felt anxious that she would never get a home of her own . |
| 6 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 7 | Bloomsbury House , asked to contribute £35 towards books , told her she was too late that term ( it was November ) and that she might possibly get a small emergency grant for the summer term ( six months ahead ) if she still needed it . |
| 8 | One is married already , one has declared that she will never take a husband , and the third has two suitors after her as it is . |
| 9 | Theda was so appalled that she could barely repress a shudder , never mind summon up a smile . |
| 10 | So strange , she sometimes thought , to have all this engineering knowledge in three languages and still be so unable to apply a single word of it that she could scarcely change a plug without helpful diagrams . |
| 11 | She caught worldwide attention last year when she claimed in a defence of prostitution charges that she could only satisfy a sex addiction by selling herself to the long line of men . |
| 12 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 13 | He had to admit that she could still ride a lot better than he could . |
| 14 | The more she thought about it , the more clearly she saw that she must somehow get a warning to Tristram . |