Example sentences of "that she [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young child , susan Rothenberg frequented her neighbourhood gallery , the Allbright Knox in Buffalo , New York , leaving with a knowledge that she would someday express herself in charcoal and pencil , gesso and paint . |
| 2 | She ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray , and McLeish was left with the feeling that she would willingly have done the same to the live flesh of Angela Morgan , if available . |
| 3 | Presumably Miss Philimore had placed some sort of order before she left , forgetting that she would no longer be around to take delivery . |
| 4 | Faced with this pressure Aquino met with supporters in the Senate and with Cabinet officials on Sept. 23 and announced that she would no longer press for a referendum , although she would not prevent others from doing so . |
| 5 | On the same day Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka said that she would firmly use the increased powers given her by the small constitution , including giving orders to ministers , which had not been possible before . |
| 6 | She did not believe that she would ever do it , for she told herself that she was free ; she thought that she would probably end by prolonging , in some way , her present situation , by returning for vacations and for long dead summers . |
| 7 | Realising that she would probably be dismissed on the spot if Esther should discover her , she closeted herself in the pantry and proceeded to pour herself a glass of sarsaparilla from the big earthenware jug there . |
| 8 | She knew that she would probably be naughty again , because that was the way she was , but never again would she be quite so prone to take such instant action . |
| 9 | She thought that she would probably like her very much if she met her properly . |
| 10 | Charity knew she was n't going to look gorgeous no matter what she did , and deciding she needed all the help she could get to lure in those tips that might hold off personal bankruptcy for three months , she had purchased the skirt and shirt — with six other summery , playful outfits that she would probably never be able to wear again as long as she lived . |
| 11 | She knew it was nothing — that she would probably not speak to Miguelito again . |
| 12 | When he eventually introduced himself , she politely told him that she would rather pay her own bill and had enough money to do so . |
| 13 | And her dislike of the insincere ran so deep that she would rather publicly disclaim all grief for her dead husband than be accused of insincerity . |
| 14 | Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests . |
| 15 | She could think only that she would rather be in Paris . |
| 16 | The previous evening they had insisted on taking her to the cinema , ignoring her protests that she would rather see the Molière play at the Comédie Française , to watch Jacques Prévert 's film Les Enfants du Paradis . |
| 17 | She did n't like to say that she would sooner lick a toad . |
| 18 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 19 | And the girl who begins rehearsing her Cinders role later this month , was more adamant than ever that she would sooner eke out a living in glass slippers than tennis shoes . |
| 20 | He had been well aware that she would dearly love to have been one of his girlfriends , more than willing to go to bed with him had he given her any encouragement , and was resentful of his relationship with Liza . |
| 21 | Though the dark-eyed man opposite was wearing that inscrutable look again , and once more she discovered that she would dearly like to know what he was thinking . |
| 22 | I apply the A A schedule of motoring costs , B one eight one , for an engine capacity of two thousand and one to three thousand C C , of three thousand two hundred and eighty eight pounds and eighty eight pence and subtract from that figure the corresponding figure for an engine capacity of one thousand and one to fourteen hundred C C , namely one thousand two hundred and fifty three pounds and thirteen pence for the vehicle I find that she would otherwise have run . |
| 23 | I plucked up the courage to talk to her , and felt this urgent need to tell her that she would eventually kill herself . |
| 24 | Margot was slow at her schoolwork , and , with little chance of improving , it was hoped that she would eventually emigrate to Palestine with her sister . |
| 25 | Fergus did not say it , but he thought that Dierdriu would hear the cry , and he thought , as well , that she would also have experienced the immense lonelinesses , the sudden fierce panics , because it was inevitable that when you were a creature not quite Human , you would instinctively look for your own kind . |
| 26 | The two men had told Comfort that she would just love it . |
| 27 | Now that she knew Betty was here because she pitied her and not because she liked her , she felt less threatened and decided that she would just let her take over the cooking and do as she wished in the kitchen . |
| 28 | This fantasy was so vivid to her that she would even rehearse this line out loud , looking at herself in her mirror as she smoked the last cigarette of the night , after she 'd taken her face off , after all the noise was over and we 'd all gone home . |
| 29 | She was constantly promised that there was not going to be a war and that she would soon go back to her family . |
| 30 | She dreaded the inspector coming because he always asked a lot of questions , and told her how lucky she was that she would soon be able to go to a big place in London where there were lots of other girls and boys . |