Example sentences of "[vb past] she [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found she could just catch a direct Finnair flight if she hurried . |
| 2 | As she heard her front door click , Rachel 's anger suddenly turned to dismay and as she turned to the window she found she could only see the outline of the cathedral through a mist of tears . |
| 3 | She doubted she would ever be in danger of taking anyone at face value again , not after meeting Feargal and his sister . |
| 4 | She doubted she would ever sleep again while fitzAlan was in the immediate vicinity , but the prospect of remaining awake and having to keep her mask of aloof composure in place was daunting indeed . |
| 5 | Open , friendly and honest by nature herself , she was happiest with others who acted in the same way , but Adam Burns was a riddle she doubted she would ever find the answer to . |
| 6 | Maggie wanted to say that the way she felt she doubted she 'd ever want to eat again , but did n't . |
| 7 | He imagined she would always picture herself as a woman too lazy ever to be guilty , with a certain black dash in the late afternoon , and a temperament born two gins below par . |
| 8 | I was just thinking that maybe at the beginning of the day people could , if she knows who is due she could actually write that in , and when they came she could just tick that that they 'd arrived . |
| 9 | She could just see Roman 's car and she was blinded by a rush of tears as she realised she would never again sit in it by his side . |
| 10 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 11 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 12 | Probably too weak ; and , even if she was n't , I expected she would just let me crack my skull on the pavement because women like to see men helpless . |
| 13 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 14 | And a Manchester mother vowed she would rather go to prison for life than pay a £4,000 bill run up by her son . |
| 15 | That was the night Ellie vowed she would never cry in front of anyone again as she lay among the boxes . |
| 16 | Never one to miss an advantage , Eva stopped wearing uniform , vowed she would never again be seen in a bonnet and decided to do her own thing . |
| 17 | There and then Robbie vowed she would never pose another question on the topic . |
| 18 | For her to have gone off with him like that showed she must still care for him and yet she had been looking so adoringly at Fernando on the yacht . |
| 19 | And after — what ? — fifteen , twenty years , there was that in her altered manner that showed she could still regard him with affection . |
| 20 | She prayed she would somehow be able to avoid a journey there . |
| 21 | She protested she 'd rather freeze than wear the coat Lily had bought her . |
| 22 | Dawn is particularly inquisitive , and I soon discovered she would never fly properly in a new area without investigating it first , even if I was holding out food for her . |
| 23 | She fought the urge to look at his mouth , terrified she would somehow betray herself . |
| 24 | Now if she re-dialled she would only get the apartment ringing incessantly ; the call before she had lost and she had n't a clue where its destination was . |
| 25 | It was n't worth more than thirty shillings , but Nurse Rose would n't know that and she decided she would definitely give it to Nurse Rose . |
| 26 | She reconsidered his offer of help and reluctantly decided she might just have to accept it . |
| 27 | Although the village people had almost forgotten her trouble , she decided she could never be really happy in Marlott . |
| 28 | She decided she could safely leave him . |
| 29 | A long sash window framing a view down , far below , to where she fancied she could almost see the floodlit Verdala Palace and the Buskett Gardens , where the Mnarja would flow on until dawn … |
| 30 | From the gal who swore she 'd rather be dragged across a plain by wild horses than wear lipgloss , this comes as something of a surprise . |