Example sentences of "she [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she ought simply to go home and bolt herself in her room for ever , like Rochester 's mad wife . |
| 2 | She ought never to have trusted him . |
| 3 | She ought therefore to slip on the fur boots … put a little hay in the bottom of the coach … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Advice and support at this time could aim to minimise the chances of a girl returning to an unhappy discordant home and to parents with whom she may largely have lost touch . |
| 6 | After making first animal feed ( korm ) and only later cabbage soup ( shchi ) for the family , she may finally turn to the work that occupies the womenfolk from November until Lent — spinning flax from that blue-flowered , frail-leaved plant plucked by the root in handfuls in the August of 1921 . |
| 7 | Appropriate feedback is vital in the patient 's relearning process , so he receives praise only when it is deserved : if he fails in any way , the physiotherapist remains encouraging and positive about it , but shows him how and why he went wrong , or she may simply leave that task for the moment and return to it later , when the patient can concentrate and get it right . |
| 8 | Or she may simply have opted for motherhood without the father which normally completes the traditional ‘ set ’ . |
| 9 | When the other person is less formal and more forthcoming , he or she may well feel compromised by their self-disclosure which has not been reciprocated . |
| 10 | He or she may well progress from one to the other . |
| 11 | Curiously , the female will help each male defend his territory from a neighbour , even though a few minutes later she may well move into the neighbour 's territory and switch sides . |
| 12 | She may well succeed . |
| 13 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 14 | Erm but she may well pick you up about eleven o'clock . |
| 15 | If the therapist had approached the problem in this way she may well have avoided alienating herself from both the patient and her parents and thereby becoming largely ineffective . |
| 16 | She may well have been right about this . |
| 17 | After all , she may well have told her family and friends that I 'm a nice boy — although a Jew . |
| 18 | She may well have a thing or two to teach the Goldsmiths ' graduates about handling the demands of the art world and media . |
| 19 | She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage . |
| 20 | She may well have been right . |
| 21 | Only too true , reflected Cadfael , for she may well have some strictures to level at us , no less than at Ramsey . |
| 22 | it 's nineteen forty eight , so she may well have married and changed her name . |
| 23 | So in reality had Mrs tried what has been suggested she may well have been struck . |
| 24 | Detective Inspector Gerry Wright says although she had heart disease she may well have lived for several years , if it had n't been for the sudden shock of finding two men in her house . |
| 25 | He came to live at Maureen 's , too , and she may well breed him with Rusty — if we 're right in thinking Rusty is a female , that is ! |
| 26 | If this visit is not possible , she should fill in section B or C ( as well as section A ) on the back of the death certificate ( Form BD8 ) issued by the Registrar and send it to her local Social Security Office without delay , and they will send her a claim form ; or she may just write to the local office asking for a claim form for widow 's benefit . |
| 27 | She may just have vital information that will give Bob the lead he 's looking for . ’ |
| 28 | She may even do this by denying the bad experiences in her marriage to herself and to others , remembering only the good times , however few they were , and concentrating her thoughts on the positive aspects of her husband 's personality . |
| 29 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 30 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |