Example sentences of "but she [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she would show him , he need n't think she would n't . |
| 2 | But she would make him pay for this , she vowed to herself silently , even if she killed herself in the process ! |
| 3 | She looked a little peculiar , but she would make everyone else look pitifully ordinary . |
| 4 | Her father 's duchy would , by a family convention of 1658 , be transferred to his youngest brother Ernst August , but she would inherit her father 's private fortune . |
| 5 | ‘ Everyone warned her ; her father , all his friends , but she would marry him . |
| 6 | No , I would disrupt proceedings ( ! ) but she would take them herself . |
| 7 | He knew she was angry with him for allowing their daughter to join the hunt , traditionally something only a select few men were allowed the honour of , but she would see his way soon enough . |
| 8 | ‘ Or the people who live here , ’ she said , greatly daring , but she would say anything to keep his mind off the bottle . |
| 9 | Not that Cathy Carne was a loner , she wanted — needed human contacts , but she would have them only on her own terms . |
| 10 | It would be so easy to say yes to everything he was asking of her ; she would n't have his love but she would have his arms round her all through the nights that , from now on , promised to be lonely . |
| 11 | ‘ My mother is a keen gardener , but she would consider it cruel to lift these ferns from their sheltered positions and subject them to Wellington winds . ’ |
| 12 | But she would risk his anger to satisfy her need to know . |
| 13 | She would argue about moving Anna before she had fully recovered — if she recovered — but she would put nothing in the way of Anna 's marriage to Nahum Plunkett . |
| 14 | I had few worries that she would suddenly take an interest in American history , but she might notice something out of place and the combination lock looked much more sophisticated than it actually was . |
| 15 | But she 'll do what she 's told . |
| 16 | Do what you like , but she 'll remain mine , because she already knows she 's mine . ’ |
| 17 | But she 'll wear it if she has to , and she wants to go to Lourdes , the priest 's been on to her and she 's … ’ |
| 18 | But she 'll want their pedigree before they get their hands on her knee . |
| 19 | But she 'll need me some day . |
| 20 | But she 'll try it on with you Dotty , you mark my words . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Bob Lamb has shown an interest in her , ’ went on Elizabeth , ‘ but she 'll have none of him . ’ |
| 22 | So erm , he said , she 'll , she 'll ring you , he said , she 'd here , but she 'll ring you later . |
| 23 | Yeah but she 'll know she 'll know that in fact he 'll be seeing her . |
| 24 | But she 'd bite her tongue off sooner than ask him for any favours . |
| 25 | His wife answered and told me that he was out on a call but she 'd give him my message . |
| 26 | The heroine 's image faced fearful odds in the cube but she 'd make it and the girl would think she 'd just fallen asleep . |
| 27 | but she 'd do anything for you , if you say like midnight one night you got her out of bed and come down . |
| 28 | No ; but she 'd let her daughter be a shop-girl . |
| 29 | But she 'd let him have a slice of the cake she 'd brought in if he gave her and her friend fruit or ice cream — whatever he 'd bought . |
| 30 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |