Example sentences of "[that] she [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Not that she would want me to keep it now it 's gone this far . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was hurt that John had said nothing to her about it , and decided that she would avoid him in future . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She promised to find something else to sell me , and said that she would give me a ring . |
| 7 | They made an agreement that she would give them her left-over flowers for their shops . |
| 8 | There was no way that she would give him the satisfaction of seeing her emerge later in the evening with puffy red eyes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She asked for her boys to be taken into care because she was terrified that she would do it again . |
| 11 | As far as other firms facing financial difficulties are concerned , she says that she would advise them to consider IVA at an early stage . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | of ten , overnight , especially after a major row with her daughter , Marie 's mother , stricken with guilt , would swear to herself that she would make it up to Marie tomorrow : tomorrow , they would make a fresh start . |
| 14 | Because he believed that she would make it up , he knew she would , damn him . |
| 15 | And he besought his mother that she would love her even as she loved him himself , and that she would do good to her and show her great honour , for which he should ever serve her with the better good will . |
| 16 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 17 | He was aware , even as he spoke , that she would think he was lying , putting on his ‘ sincere ’ act to try to get round her . |
| 18 | To get her into a routine , I started leaving food out at the same time and place every day , always whistling the same tune , so that she would associate it with being fed . |
| 19 | She looked away and Trent thought for a moment that she would leave it alone , but then she looked back and asked quickly , to get it out , ‘ Did your mother leave him for your father ? ’ |
| 20 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |
| 21 | The doctor offered Rose slimming tablets to help her lose even more weight but he said he was not very hopeful that she would lose it from her legs . |
| 22 | She did not fear that she would lose it , because it was the world — her world , the reality that encased her . |
| 23 | Betty thanked her for the bucket and smiled at her , and Lydia , who , if Betty went on like this , might turn out to be quite human , decided that she would take her her breakfast in bed in the morning : thin crispy toast with a scraping of butter and golden clear jasmine tea , and an egg-cupful of harebells to remind her of the sky . |
| 24 | He sensed that she would take it black and sugarless and he was right . |
| 25 | Henry had a feeling that she would take it well . |
| 26 | He had pleaded with his mother not to make him go to school , but she had insisted , saying that she would pick him up at the end of the day and take him to the hospital , and that he was to ‘ keep busy ’ . |
| 27 | She said — or rather I did , to her solicitors — that she would consider it again in a year or so when everyone was calmer . ’ |
| 28 | Jenna left the meal to keep hot and went to freshen up , telling herself that she would consider it coldly and then decide , but in reality she was churned up inside , a desire to hide from this uppermost , but a deep-seated and almost morbid curiosity urging her to go to France and see the man who was nothing to her at all , not even a face to remember . |
| 29 | I thought I would dig it up again , and put it in her bed , all covered with mould , so that she would know it was dead , but after a while she stopped crying , so I left it there . |
| 30 | Mildred spent a lot of time by the pond telling the frog-magician that she had n't forgotten him and that she would get him out if it was the last thing she did . |