Example sentences of "[subord] she [modal v] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Every day of the season she would travel in her carriage and six to Ashdown Park on top of the downs , where she would course for hares with her magnificent greyhounds and walk for twenty-five miles .
2 Down the street a block or two , she found a spot under a grocer 's awning where she could pore over the map .
3 Like Diane Barker , of Bishop Auckland , a deaf teenager who passed her test first time in 1984 after having special mirrors fitted so she could lip read commands from the driving instructor without taking her eyes of the road .
4 Erm I 'm g one thing I 'm gon na do is ask if she 'll flag major changes when she produces the new telephone directories .
5 In town crier fashion he bellowed : ‘ I call upon these persons here present to witness that I , Darren John Johnson , being of sound mind , do ask my beloved Sharon Samantha Edwards , if she will plight her troth unto me . ’
6 He bellowed : ‘ I call upon these persons here present to witness that I , Darren John Johnson , being of sound mind , do ask my beloved Sharon Samantha Edwards , if she will plight her troth unto me ? ’
7 She cringed back from him , pressing herself against the stove , wondering if she could edge past and make for the door .
8 A 20-year-old crusader who could live on rice , salt and chillies once a day had to decide whether she could foist that option on her kids .
9 She had five whole days to go yet before she might chance to see Vendelin Gajdusek , she mused and , suddenly fired with enthusiasm , and mobile , she toyed with the idea of taking a look at the other spa towns — if they were not too far distant .
10 And would be more so when she could steel herself to pinch out the little chin and make it weak .
11 Her head did not precisely ache , but it felt hollow and somehow precarious ; and she found it hard to make her muscles work so that she felt as though she might trip over her own feet or walk into the furniture .
12 She would only bewilder him quite as much as she would distress him .
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