Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In winter when she entertained she would send him outside to chop more wood for their open fire . |
| 2 | She realised they 'd want her to be a double agent , so they 'd have a mole inside American Intelligence . |
| 3 | She realised he could provide her with some top-class partners and she has made the best of them . |
| 4 | She realised he could teach her a thing or two about reserve . |
| 5 | When he looked away , she realised she would lose him for ever . |
| 6 | Although she bet she would like him . |
| 7 | She could make up a story , say she suffered temporary amnesia , or that she was knocked unconscious by thieves and all her money was gone , but she doubted she could make it sound believable . |
| 8 | She found she could wave her arms as she ran . |
| 9 | Once aboard , she found she could let them off the leash . |
| 10 | She estimated it would take her 11 years to pay off the debt . |
| 11 | At times she believed she could make her hard man into a piece of putty , but not when he spoke of duty . |
| 12 | The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence . |
| 13 | She imagined she could hear it at her back , behind the house and the soft green swell of land that shielded it , could hear the breaking thud of the winter waves on the shore she had not yet seen . |
| 14 | Well she thoroughly enjoyed the life , in fact right up , oh till nearly the end she spoke about Pharay and as long as she was able she used to go and she imagined she could see it better with the spy glasses . |
| 15 | But Eva ignored all such eyes : this was where she reckoned she could do something . |
| 16 | And she would provide a substitute for the two weeks she reckoned it would take her , an English maid called Phoebe Crabbe with whom she had become friendly . |
| 17 | As she danced she could lose herself in the movement . |
| 18 | Rain wanted to say she would phone in the morning , or later that evening perhaps , to check that he was all right , but she guessed he would reject her concern . |
| 19 | It would also be better from the point of view of traffic — she had n't yet looked up Hallborough on a map , but she guessed she would need her car to get to it . |
| 20 | She claimed she must get her breath back . |
| 21 | She determined she would show him how generous she could be , next time , how to her the priests ' talk was cant , and she 'd defy all for love of him . |
| 22 | She decided she would teach them a lesson . |
| 23 | They came the year after the big storm in 1947 and she decided she would turn their spare milk into cheese . |
| 24 | She knew she would probably have to say something sooner or later , but she decided she would put it off as long as she possibly could . |
| 25 | She decided she would say it , noticed how her body rearranged itself for the tone that would come . |
| 26 | Reluctantly she decided she must see it through , for Peter , and in some way for herself — she had to prove to herself that she could come face to face with Marc again and survive the ordeal . |
| 27 | But even if Fen had gone ten miles , she swore she would find him . |
| 28 | In the end she saw the giant fish-hooks come down down into her and she thought they would haul her out of the depths , but they did not . |
| 29 | When Helen told Price Waterhouse that this was what she wanted to do , she thought they would say it was all or nothing and tell her to pack her bags . |
| 30 | Well her being human , she thought it might damage our digestive system . |