Example sentences of "[pron] she [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dismissing the doctor who had brought Eileen and all her brothers and sisters into the world as someone she would n't have to whelp her mangy bitch . |
| 2 | Nathan was talking to someone she could n't see . |
| 3 | Which she wo n't want to know about . |
| 4 | Faced now with the future upon which she dare not hazard herself , the other seemed suddenly quite possible . |
| 5 | Run from the ambitious young man who was her husband and who was bringing fear into her existence , a horrible fear to which she dare n't put a name and which had sprung into life a month ago . |
| 6 | ‘ And apart from Barbra arriving late — which she would n't have done had she only been given one hairdresser instead of three , because all three insisted on fixing her hair , and that took time — everything went smoothly . ’ |
| 7 | One main reason is that I know that the other person thinks I will act as promised and therefore she will do something which she would not do otherwise . |
| 8 | Almost immediately there was trouble with her fellow-travellers on account of her ‘ great weeping and boisterous sobbing ’ , and her continual exhortations to the good life , which she would not cease from even at meals . |
| 9 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
| 10 | She was about to risk departing for an early lunch , a move which she would not have dared to make if Miss Coldharbour had been in the office , but Julia gathered she was out for the morning and not expected in until two fifteen . |
| 11 | He turned around and stared at her with that insufferable thoroughness , which was downright rude , but about which she could n't complain . |
| 12 | Somebody must be doing his mending for him , as she was doing Willis 's , and the idea gave her a stab of pain which she could n't relate to her other feelings . |
| 13 | It was n't only the money , but her library card , her family allowance book , the receipt from the repair shop without which she could n't get her watch back , creased photographs , with Edward 's own photograph among them , her address book , almost the whole sum of her identity . |
| 14 | But a wallet would contain all sorts of personal items which she could n't get hold of . |
| 15 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 16 | Fortunately most of the tourists were after a robot hover , which she could n't afford anyway . |
| 17 | They were primitive feelings which she could n't deny . |
| 18 | The proprietor must have thought that they were lovers because he showed them to the most secluded table in the place , talking all the while in rapid French , which she could n't understand at all , but which Piers had no trouble in comprehending . |
| 19 | To the right was a road which she could n't see because of the height of the wall , but she could see the tops of buses and lorries , travelling along it . |
| 20 | Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore . |
| 21 | But she did not wish to lose her place , hard though her life as a servant was ; such an outcome would be a failure which she could not endure . |
| 22 | Fully confident of German support , Vienna issued Serbia an ultimatum which she could not fulfil , and declared war . |
| 23 | There was an overpoweringly strong odour of stale tobacco smoke , and beneath that , other smells which were alien to her nostrils and which she could not identify . |
| 24 | When she woke she found her hand covered with blood which she could not wash off until she went to church to confess to the priest . |
| 25 | Philip of Valois 's claim , however , had the virtues of clarity and logic , whereas Edward 's claim , as French lawyers pointed out at the time and French historians have not hesitated to remark since , rested on the unsatisfactory assumption that a woman could transmit a right which she could not exercise . |
| 26 | One sermon to urge the duty of penance and confession tells of a woman who had committed a sin which she could not bring herself to confess for shame . |
| 27 | Her lips parted in a small smile which she could not control . |
| 28 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
| 29 | Jane saw her degree as a process of narrowing down , rather than a broadening out ; it shut out the creative , ‘ qualitative ’ aspect of her nature , and presented her with a set of rules and definitions which she had to conform to , or reject , but which she could not challenge . |
| 30 | His marriage seemed like the Atlantic Ocean to her , something vast and unknowable which she could not attempt to bridge but only fly over at a terrible speed . |