Example sentences of "and she [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother 's moodswings began to terrify her , and she would slow to a careful frozen walk as she turned into their street . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’ |
| 3 | Every time Ellie crept into her dead mother 's room , she knew she should not be there , and she would hesitate on the threshold of the airless room , while the skin on her scalp prickled with a guilty excitement . |
| 4 | He thought he could simply invite her to sleep with him and she would obey like a lunatic . |
| 5 | She had ruined their relationship , and she would live with the pain of that for the rest of her life . |
| 6 | She would never be ill and she would live to a very old age . |
| 7 | Mary Worty had a habit of getting drunk and then getting into fights and her face was criss-crossed with cuts and she would get in the window of her bedroom , start giving the history of people all the way down and then they 'd all get out in crowds . |
| 8 | And she shall continue in the blood of purification three and thirty days ; she shall touch no hallowed thing , nor come into the sanctuary , until the days of her purification be fulfilled . |
| 9 | But if she bear a maid-child , then she shall be unclean two weeks , as in her impurity ; and she shall continue in the blood of purification threescore and six days . |
| 10 | ‘ My neighbours on the top floor return tomorrow , and Mrs Gregson is here now — one good scream and she 'll send for the police . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And she 'll transmit on the hour ? ’ |
| 12 | Emilia Frere passed three nights in the bedroom at the Hall before Tom Horrocks professed himself satisfied that all danger was passed and she might return to the Rectory . |
| 13 | If she was good , maybe ‘ soon ’ would be sooner still and she could dance in the meanings … . |
| 14 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 15 | She knew she would not cheat and take that option , and she could think of no other . |
| 16 | She was not so far gone in the sinful practice of dissimulation that she felt free to claim that she meant to ask them because she knew Betty would be pleased , and she could think of no other remotely credible reason for doing so . |
| 17 | He said they should go upstairs to the room above the gallery , and she could think of no way of refusing . |
| 18 | She asked for red wine and when he brought it she raised the glass and tried to think of something original and witty by way of a toast but he forestalled her by saying , ‘ Cheers , ’ and she could think of no other response . |
| 19 | He probably would n't be very interested in what she had to say , but at least he would be near her and she could dwell upon the handsome face which was exactly as she had remembered it . |
| 20 | What little hair he had shone with a silver sheen in the lamplight and she could see in the crumpled , brick-red face , the likeness of Stephen . |
| 21 | She will work with the Allied Screening Commission which is part of M.I.9 , and she will live with a charming couple , Signor and Signora Banterle . |
| 22 | Her piercing cry is a death omen and she will hover near the person she is attempting to warn , crying ‘ My husband ! |
| 23 | And she can stand as an example of all my attitudes or of every other encounter with the female sex . |
| 24 | He and She can refer to the third party in either of the triangular relationships , but in Sonnet 2 He refers to the Friend 's future child , while in 3 She refers to the Friend 's mother ; in 50 and 51 He refers to the poet 's horse ! |
| 25 | But their mother is free of their weight and bulk and she can run into the world outside the burrow to gather food and so continue producing the milk that they need . |
| 26 | She should be the centre of social life abhorred and dominant , and she should sit like a great spider behind the curtains of the Garden Room , spying on her friends , and I knew that her name must be Elizabeth Mapp . |
| 27 | And she used to go with the district nurses a lot to er to treat different people specially a long time I remember erm a young man erm h he had er I think it was cerebral palsy he had and er he was so fed up with himself he threw paraffin over himself and er set light you know on the top of the stairs and threw himself down . |
| 28 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 29 | actually it was erm I forget what it was when me mother-in-law died and she used to moan about the shop and I said to Christine the time she goes down and back I mean things are dear in , but some of the things in the shop now , and then , are cheaper than down the town , so if you take your , your bus |
| 30 | Oh yes , yes she does , but , that 's about all she 's got two cousins , that 's right , and one of them 's married and got children and she used to have in the north , the great friend Sylvia from school days and Sylvia would of been one of the first Anglican Deacons to be ordained as a , as a priest |