Example sentences of "she [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Or she may simply have opted for motherhood without the father which normally completes the traditional ‘ set ’ .
6 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 .
7 He or she may well progress from one to the other .
8 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 .
9 She may well succeed .
10 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 .
11 Erm but she may well pick you up about eleven o'clock .
12 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 .
13 She may well have been right about this .
14 After all , she may well have told her family and friends that I 'm a nice boy — although a Jew .
15 She may well have a thing or two to teach the Goldsmiths ' graduates about handling the demands of the art world and media .
16 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 .
17 She may well have been right .
18 Only too true , reflected Cadfael , for she may well have some strictures to level at us , no less than at Ramsey .
19 it 's nineteen forty eight , so she may well have married and changed her name .
20 So in reality had Mrs tried what has been suggested she may well have been struck .
21 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 .
22 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 !
23 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 .
24 She may just have vital information that will give Bob the lead he 's looking for . ’
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 She may even concede that hospitalisation is best , at least for the last trimester .
29 She may even find , if a relationship has been a particularly draining one , that this brings sweet relief and restores her zest for life .
30 She may be surprised , disconcerted ; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man .
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