Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie glanced over at the punch bowl thinking she would n't mind some . |
| 2 | That mean she could no longer counter-sign company cheques . |
| 3 | Even in her grief she could still look out for her remaining children . |
| 4 | Her side she wo n't have it . |
| 5 | For her own sake it was a side she could n't afford to see too often . |
| 6 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 7 | He did wheel towards her then , his face contorted with an emotion she could n't fathom . |
| 8 | With a rush of emotion she could n't put a name to Luce realised that her first instinctive feeling about him had been absolutely right . |
| 9 | Yet for Rita Allen , life in Canada has brought promise of a fuller future — a kind of future she could n't have contemplated before . |
| 10 | It was not a matter of ‘ if only … ’ , but rather a nostalgia for a different , a parallel plane of existence , a nostalgia for a future she could never have lived . |
| 11 | Why motherhood should have become such an obsession she could not imagine , but she did understand that whatever was the matter with her was contributing to her misery . |
| 12 | The two students who were watching over her told her very sensibly that if she tried to drive the car she 'd probably kill herself . |
| 13 | And if she adds any more biscuits to the regular quota she wo n't get through the door anyway . |
| 14 | I thought Gran and Jake had ruined my childhood , Jake because he was n't like other boys and Gran because to my mind she would n't do enough about him . |
| 15 | It was too early to go to bed yet — though she 'd an idea that while this worry was on her mind she would n't be doing a lot of sleeping . |
| 16 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the man she had been wary of seeing , who had a bad reputation , who in her right mind she should never have got involved with , had turned out to be a good man underneath . |
| 18 | She could n't even eat with people she did n't like , and as for sleeping with anyone — unless she was wildly in love or pissed out of her mind she could n't do it . |
| 19 | In her mind she could still hear the other woman saying lewdly , ‘ She 's certainly got the hots for you . ’ |
| 20 | It did n't even matter that coffee would probably keep her awake — in her present state of mind she 'd never be able to sleep anyway . |
| 21 | Erm but to get into the social work department she 'll still have to do the that that |
| 22 | But once she was on a downward incline she could only run faster and faster , squawking with fury as she lost her balance , till she tripped over and fell in a tumble of feathers and feet . |
| 23 | The Common Cause , reporting a case of the wrongful arrest of a woman for alleged prostitution , commented that the suspect was ‘ taken to a man 's court , tried and sentenced by men under men 's laws for a fault she can not commit alone ’ . |
| 24 | He glared at her , as if it were her fault she could n't remember . |
| 25 | It singles out one form of non-marital living arrangement and penalises it ( if the woman sets up house with her sister , her father , her adult children or her lesbian lover she would still have some entitlement to SB ) . |
| 26 | Having to hold the button down all the time made it a bit awkward for looking out of the side window , but by craning her neck she could just manage to see the hole to the rear of the craft . |
| 27 | In the dim light she could just make out some moving shapes . |
| 28 | A house in France was a luxury she could n't afford , but she needed to visit it at least once — to make a reasoned decision about the future of her unexpected inheritance . |
| 29 | The track felt soft and slithery but in the dark she could n't see what it was she was stepping on . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's always this fear she wo n't be able to cope , so you do n't give her the difficult jobs ’ . |