Example sentences of "she [modal v] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to the example of the headship issue , it would follow that although a woman may not hold a position of authority in the church , she may be prime minister . |
| 2 | ‘ I know that old Sir David only died last year — just before my own father — and I realise that she must be worried sick about poor Owen . |
| 3 | Surely she should be encouraging people to improve the quality of life in such areas as Tottenham , where housing can still be bought and rented at realistic prices . |
| 4 | She should be several people . |
| 5 | Just tell her the names of those books and I tell you she 'll be right over . ’ |
| 6 | If she could be sure Miguel was there , she could walk up and ask for the jeep . |
| 7 | She could be growing cold . |
| 8 | and she 'd be wanting uniform ones |
| 9 | If her own mind could play tricks like that , she 'd be easy meat for any of those giant prawns . |
| 10 | All she needed was a pair of shooters slung from her hip and she 'd be little Annie Oakley , she thought derisively , reaching instead for her favourite Navajo belt . |
| 11 | She would be all silver , he gold , and — |
| 12 | She was deceitful , was Shirley : downstairs , with Mr and Mrs Harper , she would be another girl , helpful , quiet , obsequious , prim , in her neat , absurdly old-fashioned blouses and skirts , her hair tied neatly back in bunches . |
| 13 | She would be ten minutes . |
| 14 | Mindful of the stable-room boiler and the bucket , she gave him a brilliant smile as she stepped down and then she said , ‘ Twenty minutes , Murphy , ’ and he grimaced faintly again , as if to say he knew perfectly well she would be twenty minutes , ladies calling always were . |
| 15 | She pulls over on to the hard shoulder , gets out , opens the boot , gets out the spare tyre and the jack , jacks up the car , takes off the old wheel , puts on the new one , lets the jack down , puts it and the wheel back in the boot , closes it , gets back in the car and drives on , knowing that she will be fifteen minutes late . |
| 16 | she do n't usually , but she will be that night . |