Example sentences of "[adj] she [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know when things got fresh she 'd perhaps have enough for all week or till you went on the Tuesday , you see , yeah . |
| 2 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 3 | If he was careful she might even allow him to travel back with her on the coach . |
| 4 | But we were afraid she might then escape . |
| 5 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 6 | The change in her way of living was so vast she could scarcely credit it ; she would stop , sometimes , with the polishing rag in her hand , under the watchful eye of the parakeet , and say aloud : ‘ But this can never be me , not really me ! |
| 7 | She would need stock , after all , and if the selection was n't too impossible she could probably keep it long enough to clear it . |
| 8 | When Alejandro yelled at Perdita to tack up a little chestnut gelding , she was so nervous she could hardly do up the throat lash or adjust the stirrups . |
| 9 | At the end of the first year Susan realised that although the business was profitable she could hardly take out enough money to live on because she was heavily reliant on her bank and creditors already . |
| 10 | His voice was so low she could scarcely catch the words . |
| 11 | His voice was so low she could hardly hear him . |
| 12 | Cheshire social services chief David Whitehead said Siobhan was so weak she could hardly walk . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I could see , again , how striking she must once have been , when her primly drawn-back grey hair had presumably matched her eyes , ‘ with all that 's fair of black and bright ’ . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if it was accidental she might even forgive him . |
| 16 | But the harder they pressed her , the more confused she would probably have become . |
| 17 | But unless she is lucky she will also meet others who have opted for different solutions to the problem of how to be a teacher . |
| 18 | He would too — he was so angry at her threat that I 'm sure she would never dare to carry it out . ’ |
| 19 | just going to Palace Brook Castle , she 's not really sure she might just give us a pound for erm . |
| 20 | I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ . |
| 21 | I 'm sure she 'd rather share the spoils than lose them altogether . ’ |
| 22 | Gradually she grew so tired she could hardly think . |
| 23 | he had fallen off twice more and ridden twelve different ponies by lunchtime and was so tired she could hardly eat . |
| 24 | ‘ If her marriage had been happy she might well have been philosophical about the new baby , ’ her lawyer said . |
| 25 | She 'd turned her back on him then and stormed away , her back ramrod-straight , so angry she could barely see straight . |
| 26 | Bernice was so angry she could hardly speak . |
| 27 | Jenny was nine , and even if she had n't been adventurous she would probably have fallen in the river anyway , because there was nothing much to do at Dale End but get into mischief . |
| 28 | JERVIS : I am not to dispute with your honour , but I dare say if the men will let her alone she 'll never trouble herself about them . |
| 29 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
| 30 | She ended the first day with a headache so severe she could hardly see . |