Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may change quite a lot , on the surface anyway . |
| 2 | She may take quite a while adding up the wine list . ’ |
| 3 | If the dream were to lose its power , if she were somehow to prevent it recurring , she must face again the memory of that afternoon nearly thirty years ago . |
| 4 | Told her she must send out the original . |
| 5 | Marjorie , however , feels that she must put in an appearance downstairs , however token , before he leaves for work , and there is a sense in which Vic understands and approves of this gesture . |
| 6 | She must look quite a sight . |
| 7 | In all fairness , she should point out the entries that were suspect , so that they could find out what was amiss . |
| 8 | She set the candelabrum and the tray down on one of the tables , removing his greatcoat and placing it carefully over the back of a chair so that she might lay out a cloth and utensils . |
| 9 | ‘ Looks as if she might harbour quite a temper there . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She 'll go down a treat in Shipley . ’ |
| 11 | And then she 'll sleep she wo n't sleep actually in the airing cupboard , she 'll sleep so the door 's wide open and she 's half way across the la , and she sleeps you know |
| 12 | You see — the calf muscle on the left leg just does n't work , so if I do n't do something quickly she 'll end up a cripple . |
| 13 | She 's not too bad , the doctor thinks she 'll recover quite a lot of movement , though maybe not all . |
| 14 | I do n't tell her or she 'll take on the mantleshelf . |
| 15 | That 's where he 's away this weekend to her place , and then he 's going next weekend because there 's some wedding do or something er so he 's to go next weekend , he goes there , stays with her parents and then she 'll come down the weekend after that and stay at our house . |
| 16 | She 'd never retire ; but she could fix up the house , put in some extra loos and bathrooms , have the kitchen completely refitted — get her business on a sound footing for the first time in her life . |
| 17 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 18 | Or else she could spin out the repair until it was too late and they had to get somebody else . |
| 19 | It came to her that she could tell where the walls stopped being her skin only because the blue shaded down a spectrum from azure to sapphire . |
| 20 | She stripped off her clothes and dropped them where they fell , then ran a bath and climbed into it , scouring her skin over and over with a loofah as if she could wash away the memory of his body on hers . |
| 21 | She could make up a story , say she suffered temporary amnesia , or that she was knocked unconscious by thieves and all her money was gone , but she doubted she could make it sound believable . |
| 22 | She could make out the man now . |
| 23 | At the edge of hearing , as she turned back into her room , she could make out the shuffling of crockery . |
| 24 | Suddenly , beyond , in the black solidity she could make out the pattern in the sun-whitened rocks : the lips of craters . |
| 25 | It was dark down below , but she could make out the shapes of beer kegs . |
| 26 | Franca even wished that she could set up a relation of some kind with him . |
| 27 | Before she could set out the cups she had to remove a large heavy book — Crockford — which occupied the centre of the table . |
| 28 | It 'll be a good three months before she shows , and , with skilful dressing , she could go on a lot longer . ’ |
| 29 | Before she could reply , before she could sort out the details , even , he launched himself on her and stopped her mouth with his . |
| 30 | She could knock up an outfit in two hours . ’ |