Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She need not rely for her sense of identity upon outward appearance ; she may in fact look beautiful , she may look a mess ; it does not matter greatly at that particular time . |
| 2 | She must of Ange cos they were slopping . |
| 3 | Thus , for centuries it used to be thought that even if a woman expressed her lack of consent in every way within her power , if she conceived as a result of the intercourse , she must in fact have consented . |
| 4 | If she should by chance ever read these words , I think she would confirm not merely that this was how he spoke but that I have not misrepresented her reactions . |
| 5 | Belinda had worked very hard indeed for nearly twelve years since her mother 's death , becoming almost a mother herself to the twin boys and doing as much of the cooking and housekeeping as she could between school and homework . |
| 6 | Can you wonder that Virginia , the Elf Second , used to put her head down , keep her eyes fixed straight in front of her , and pedal as hard as she could past Wardle Wood and the old woman who lived in the cottage in the middle of it . |
| 7 | But she also needed to come to terms with the topsy-turviness of her situation that , while she wanted to spend every moment she could with Ven , she suddenly felt a need to be alone ! |
| 8 | She could to Charlie , though . |
| 9 | She could of course , she thought with that sudden burst of adolescent enthusiasm , not live . |
| 10 | She also had the run of the library and she could of course go out , as long , he warned her with a sardonic look , as she did n't wander off with strange men . |
| 11 | She managed throughout the following years to maintain a front of firmness and dignity , earning the respect of the Germans and at the same time extracting the best terms she could for Sark and its people , with whom she shared the hunger and other privations of occupation , the anxieties engendered by two unsuccessful British commando raids , and the pain of separation when many islanders , including her husband , were deported to German prison camps . |
| 12 | Until then , she accepted it as graciously as she could for necessities only , much to her father 's irritation … |
| 13 | As a child she had feverishly researched everything she could about Andalucía because he came from there , the most southerly region in Spain , the most fascinating and the biggest , the land of guitars and castanets , the land of the swirling dresses and sharply stamping feet of flamenco dancers . |
| 14 | She could about stagger to the off-licence and obliterate the rest of the evening . |
| 15 | She 'd spent the rest of the afternoon trying to find out all she could about leukaemia , and the funny disease Dr Kent thought Bobbie Cole had . |
| 16 | She also wanted her own business , and during her years in the trade prepared herself for this by learning as much as she could about bookshop buying , repping and wholesaling , financial administration , rights and coeditions , export sales , publicity , and paid-for promotion . |
| 17 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 18 | She turned her face as far as she could towards Marie . |
| 19 | With an exclamation of disgust , she pushed herself to her knees and flung the offending branch as far as she could in temper at her own stupidity . |
| 20 | She panicked for a moment , and then seeing the beam on his face , smiled as calmly as she could in response . |
| 21 | Alice fulfilled the orders , then sat down as far as she could from Alfred who had just arrived . |
| 22 | Dexter guessed that she thought the same as him but was keen to learn as much as she could from Blufton about Nicola and her motives for giving these ‘ facts ’ to the chairman of TVL . |
| 23 | She used to stagger , and if you did n't watch out she 'd come down on you and crush you while you were a-shoeing her . |
| 24 | That , that 's her main , she used to sort of look after things and baby-sit for us in the evenings . |
| 25 | Well , she used to sort of keep shop for him , she was deaf as a post ! |
| 26 | She used to mind you in them days you there was no er fitted carpets on your floor . |
| 27 | She used to years ago but she does n't bother any more |
| 28 | She felt certain then that whether Naylor called her back to the new extension to tell her to deny that she was engaged to him or not , she would without fail , before five o'clock that day , be summoned to account for Travis 's unexpected easy acceptance of her getting engaged to someone else . |
| 29 | She further declared that any charges of heresy against Pole would be heard in England , announcing in words ironically reminiscent of her father 's that : ‘ she would in observance of the laws and privileges of her realm , refer them [ the charges ] to the cognisance and decision of her own ecclesiastical courts . ’ |
| 30 | There were wall-sized French windows through which she would in daylight have been able to see the back garden . |