Example sentences of "[that] she [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young Palestinian men who had gathered in the room to hear her story sat quietly , knowing that she would finish her grief and that this was a ritual even if it was a deeply felt one . |
| 2 | He could n't really think that she would stop her investigations just because of a few threats ? |
| 3 | She slipped under the bedclothes and switched on the reading lamp , adamant that she would shove him to the furthest corner of her mind , but the minute she opened her book her brain started working again , throwing up images of him , the way he smiled , that confident knowing look in his eyes when he addressed her . |
| 4 | She emphasised that she did not want to get better ; that there was no reason or motive for her to get better ; that she wished to remain in control ; that she would cure herself when she decided that it was right to do so . |
| 5 | She emphasised that she did not want to get better ; that there was no reason or motive for her to get better ; that she wished to remain in control ; that she would cure herself when she decided that it was right to do so . |
| 6 | He hardly dared hope that she would change her mind and marry him . |
| 7 | She was deciding that she would go herself and have a secret talk with Matilda 's mother and father as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Not that she would want me to keep it now it 's gone this far . |
| 9 | Its pure white flanks , its fine , strong legs , its proud , aristocratic face ; all these combined to form an animal so beautiful , he had known at once that she would want it . |
| 10 | There were some risks to life and limb , however , over which she had no control ; how could she ever have guessed that she would outlive her son Robert by almost exactly 10 years ? |
| 11 | She was unschooled in the niceties of royal behaviour and felt absolutely terrified that she would embarrass her fiance in some way . |
| 12 | She had worked for him and her mother in a variety of businesses and was always assured that she would inherit his estate when he died . |
| 13 | Her behaviour towards Falati was in breach of a promise she had made to her husband before the trial that she would curb her temper and her excesses and maintain a low profile , the ANC sources said . |
| 14 | She was hurt that John had said nothing to her about it , and decided that she would avoid him in future . |
| 15 | His apprehension arose not out of a fear that she would ruin him by extravagant expenditure but from a neurotic anxiety that if she knew how much money he had put away , she might feel free to leave him . |
| 16 | So it was a great disappointment to discover that she was quite unlike all the other home-bred horses , and that she would give nothing in return to those who cared for her and bestowed affection upon her . |
| 17 | She promised to find something else to sell me , and said that she would give me a ring . |
| 18 | They made an agreement that she would give them her left-over flowers for their shops . |
| 19 | There was no way that she would give him the satisfaction of seeing her emerge later in the evening with puffy red eyes . |
| 20 | Lady Grange 's husband had been a Jacobite and during one of their marital battles she hinted that she would expose his seditious leanings — for which he could be hanged . |
| 21 | Susan and Gay were the people she liked best in the world , and when her father died she had made a mental vow that she would do everything in her power to make life happy for this sister of hers who had worked so hard and shown such courage . |
| 22 | These invitations made Henrietta feel that she would do anything , even return to the well , to avoid the company of the two youths one of whom bore across his chest the legend MY MOTHER WENT TO ISRAEL AND ONLY BROUGHT ME BACK THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT . |
| 23 | At the start she would rehearse arranging them with the nun so that she would do it well when she got to the Hogans , but as the weeks went by she grew in confidence . |
| 24 | She asked for her boys to be taken into care because she was terrified that she would do it again . |
| 25 | As far as other firms facing financial difficulties are concerned , she says that she would advise them to consider IVA at an early stage . |
| 26 | Accordingly , Belinda left the veranda and went to her room , deciding on the way that she would wear her new black evening trousers and the pale apricot silk camisole top she had bought to go with them . |
| 27 | In the end she yielded , declared that she would wear their gift , tucked inside her raincoat . |
| 28 | Claudia had wanted more fittings and Dana had promised that she would fit them in , but time passed and the dress still hung , swathed in its wrappings , awaiting her pleasure . |
| 29 | If she was not my mother she would be ideal but her views are coloured by the fact that she would watch anything with my name at the end of it . |
| 30 | David remained close for a brief moment , perhaps hoping that she would retract her words , but Beth only looked at him in that certain proud manner which told him she would not change her mind . |