Example sentences of "she [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 2 | She must n't lose sight of why she was here . |
| 3 | Mr Browning motioned his wife to be quiet and taking Wilson 's arm conducted her to the door , saying something to the effect that she must not give way to gloomy thoughts and that doubtless she was tired with a young baby still nursing and a house to run . |
| 4 | She must not make capital out of her distress , on the one hand ; on the other the items were quite small and there was no need to humiliate herself . |
| 5 | She must not show fear . |
| 6 | Alice said she would go up there with him , but first of all she must quickly ring Electricity . |
| 7 | But she should not leave Vitor to recognise the resemblance , she ought to tell him . |
| 8 | IF the Queen accepts Norman Lamont 's decision that she should not pay income tax the unrest could be extremely serious . |
| 9 | She knew she should n't cause trouble to people . |
| 10 | She rang the Sunday Herald number , placating her conscience with the thought that she might not have time to ring Tracey that evening after all ; but when she got through to the news desk , she discovered that he had taken the shuttle to Glasgow the morning before . |
| 11 | She might even make room for Louise on her float . |
| 12 | She might even buy mince pies instead of making them ! |
| 13 | The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall . |
| 14 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 15 | The pain would return , she knew , cruel and cutting , but pride and hurt meant little compared to the fear that she might never see fitzAlan again . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's a fanatic and she 'll probably bring Dad and a whole coachload of relatives to Liverpool , too . ’ |
| 17 | She 'll even arrange delivery for very big items within London . |
| 18 | Well well she 'll just she 'll just go silver . |
| 19 | She felt as if she could even feel smoke , stale and greasy , in her hair . |
| 20 | She could even hear background music , syrupy and soothing , in her head . |
| 21 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 22 | Although she could no longer bear to live with her father , she could not abandon mortgage payments . |
| 23 | ‘ I can only think she decided she could not marry Fabien after all , but could not bear to tell him so either . |
| 24 | I thought that now she belonged to me , she could not marry Fabien . ’ |
| 25 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 26 | A CHARGE of rape on a mentally handicapped girl was dropped yesterday after a judge ruled she could not give evidence against her alleged attacker . |
| 27 | She could not speak French , she was quite weak and , worse still , she was a woman . |
| 28 | She could not stop crying . |
| 29 | The thought crept into the warmth and she trembled , afraid that this time she could not face rejection . |
| 30 | TRAGIC aerobics teacher Joanna Grenside faked her own dramatic kidnap because she could not face Christmas . |