Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She ought to proceed with care .
2 Maybe — maybe she ought to wait until morning to confront him .
3 Margaret Hughes , from Lentwardine in Herefordshire , has been warned she may go to prison after admitting 14 cases of cruelty to farm animals .
4 The Queen of Beauty appears in image ; she may be glimpsed in a portrait , a miniature held in the hand of a knight or warrior as he rides off to battle ; she may appear on film or television screen and be adored by millions .
5 Once the foreign lawyer is registered as an RFL , he or she may enter into partnership with an English solicitor .
6 She may look like mother , but mother would have turned in her grave if she could have seen that girl today ! ’
7 She must remain in control of herself and her actions .
8 She must stand in line to leave an aisle for them .
9 She must go to sleep next to her murdered lover , talking of breakfast , and she must then persuade the Cook to prepare the body for eating .
10 She had been content to stay in the house all day and to try to clean it ; but Mrs Aggie had told her she must go to school , at least for part of the day .
11 At last the party broke up when Felicity announced that her spine felt as though it were about to collapse and that she must go to bed .
12 ‘ It is a lucky man or woman , ’ he told her in a soft voice , ‘ who is blessed with the privilege of being able to pick and choose the challenges he or she must face in life .
13 And that if she must choose between love and work , she should never hesitate : it is work , a woman 's own creative work , that gives her the only real satisfaction and makes her life worth living .
14 I want to assure him Crevecoeur is in no danger , but that SHe must return to Club Eleusis . ’
15 She must bear in mind she was in control of the pictures in her head .
16 Leila drives , a remarkable performance given that we are so wet and steaming that she must peer through condensation thick enough to carve .
17 Having been told to strip off her clothes , even her shift , without looking at her body , and don a long , unbleached , calico nightdress , she was then told how she must lie in bed , straight down , her hands by her sides .
18 In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold .
19 Gradually the fever subsided and all the skin peeled from her body , but her limbs were very stiff and the doctor insisted that she should stay in bed , lying flat as far as possible .
20 Secondly were Mrs White 's brother and sister-in-law who were reported earlier as saying at second interview that they thought she should remain at home ‘ if things keep as they 're going now , and she gets the services she 's getting ’ .
21 However , she was devoted to her more unconventional father , who agreed that she should go to art school , and in 1910 she became a student under Henry Tonks [ q.v. ] at the Slade School of Art .
22 The doctor says it is n't serious , but he thinks she should rest in bed for a few days .
23 She had quickly joined the emigration society of which her cousins were already members , and it had been agreed that she should count as part of their family .
24 But he bowed his head , and made Rosalba , practised in modesty , worry whether she should curtsey in response .
25 If she thinks she has a claim on this account , though , she should get in touch with the Inspector of Taxes .
26 At the same time Penny said of Diana : ‘ If she were to fall in love with someone prepared to go through hell , fire and water — not to mention Royal opposition — for her , she might think about separation . ’
27 If there was any hope for her , it was indisputable that the outlook was grim for anyone with whom she might come in contact .
28 His brother was interned , his mother was told to move inland , away from the coast — where presumably it was thought she might signal to enemy U-boats , and Mauro himself , although a child , was not allowed to leave Easington without a permit .
29 So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety .
30 Why , do you think she wanted to make a point of she might have at work for
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