Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [modal v] [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye , that , it 'd be the Voltarol that would give her the , the black stuff coming through . |
| 2 | As she walked up Tullis Street , Templeton 's came into view , and she headed for the entrance that would take her to the offices where she d been told to report . |
| 3 | Hurriedly , with her head down , she made her way to the nearest entrance that would take her back into the factory . |
| 4 | She remained there for four years , confined to a cell that would allow her neither to sit nor lie down : it was closed by a large stone that could be moved only by Roger . |
| 5 | She ached , she burned , and it was Julius doing this to her ; only Julius who could bring the relief and pleasure that would release her from this intense need . |
| 6 | They were strongly reprimanded by Woman 's Own whose editor made the strange assumption that large hips were synonymous with big feet , and she said the well corsetted woman has a good figure that will last her for life , and feet many times smaller than those of the uncontrolled . |
| 7 | They were not the sort of questions she could ask on so brief an acquaintance , but she was unable at present to think of an excuse that would allow her to get to know Veronica better . |
| 8 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
| 9 | She set off up the scarp , using juts and ledges as a diagonal staircase to take her on a course that would bring her close to Johannsen when they both reached the top of the incline . |
| 10 | Of course the difference is that Rooney 's view — that it is wrong to knowingly give the patient a drug that will harm her — probably has universal support . |
| 11 | There , she stamped hard on a bolt of panic that would have her turning swiftly about , and made herself press the porcelain doorbell . |
| 12 | A deadly charm that could humiliate her because it could easily make her melt and beg and forget a lifetime of rigid adherence to propriety . |
| 13 | But before I could phrase the right remark , the question that would show her I saw no reason why in Conchis 's absence she should maintain the pretending to believe , she stood up . |
| 14 | The fairy Grandmarina appears , and gives Alicia a magic fishbone that will bring her whatever she wishes for ‘ provided she wishes for it at the right time ’ . |
| 15 | As her first movie The Delinquents — aided by some pre-release hype over Australian clerics calling for sexy scenes between her and handsome co-star Charlie Shlatter to be cut — opened around the world at the end of 1989 , Kylie was planning a move that could set her on that same yellow brick road to showbusiness immortality . |
| 16 | She should have left Rome as she 'd planned , she should never have looked into her heart and discovered a truth that could destroy her . |
| 17 | She wanted to make some lightweight remark that would let her out gracefully , but nothing came . |
| 18 | A magic fairy that would whisk her away from all this , she thought , who could turn the clock back and give her a second chance — a more dignified entrance perhaps , a way of showing this arrogant rat just what she thought of him . |
| 19 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 20 | It was up to her , quickly , to forge herself a manner that would give her an advantage in whatever negotiations were to come : and she had done so , by the time he came down for his breakfast . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , Japan does not seek a total commitment that would restrict her and endanger contacts with others . |
| 22 | A sadness that could make her give up acting for good . |
| 23 | Rupert hesitated , unwilling to admit that anthropologists did no good , yet for the moment unable to think of a positive example that would convince her . |
| 24 | She did n't recognise any landmarks , so she went on again , keeping a sharp lookout for her ‘ pony tree ’ and for any other tree or open space that would tell her she was on the right path . |
| 25 | She had just stood there , scarcely able to breathe , and aware that only a hair 's breadth of control separated her from a fury that would shake her to her soul . |
| 26 | Her mind still racing , she glanced down at the map on the passenger seat and then headed towards the road that would take her to Mountpelier Lodge . |
| 27 | But behind her is a galley that can burn her down to the waterline , and beside her is Crackbene with a genius for sailing and guns he has hardly used yet . |
| 28 | Mr Cubbage was like a cat on hot bricks , he was most distraught at Coleen 's decision to go to England , and he bombarded her with letters and flowers ; he could not wait for her return and for her to say the one word that would make her his wife . |
| 29 | Young Lisa Hammond 's survival depended on an operation that would leave her in pain and unable to move for six months . |
| 30 | And she sought , faintly , for compromise , for some way of life that would enable her to see her mother as often as a sense of duty obliged . |