Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 2 | Even if she did , she might end up a helpless vegetable . |
| 3 | How ironic now to think that she 'd planned the event partly to prove she was capable of organising something major — to show Adam she could pull off a real coup . |
| 4 | She could make just a small detour … |
| 5 | A letter was received from Mrs. Hogan of Brighton asking if she could take over a sixteen-year-old blind boy , Arthur B. Her own son had died the previous year at the same age , and she said that she would ‘ do her best to make the lad happy , and find him light work in Brighton ’ . |
| 6 | Her involvement with Adam and Rourke had brought her nothing but trouble and recrimination so far , and when she looked ahead to the future she could see only a bleak landscape stretching out before her . |
| 7 | It grew until it was a window and out through the window she could see down a long tunnel ; and beyond that the sun shining and the mountains rising over the fruit trees . |
| 8 | If she were rich , that would n't stop her caring for children , but she could charge only a nominal fee to the mothers who badly needed to work . |
| 9 | The idea that she 'd give up a precious Friday evening for the pleasure of obliging Canon Wheeler for his beaux yeux was a myth she was happy to dispel . |
| 10 | He half hoped she 'd bring back a burnt-offering , the way she had so often in their first few months of marriage , when she had deigned to cook for him . |
| 11 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 12 | She decided that , should such a horrific eventuality arise , she would cook up a little headache , plead ill health , and dash from the room . |
| 13 | She would offer up a silent prayer . |
| 14 | By this time the bell would be ringing insistently , because the Met Waaf at Group who was collecting the observations would have her finger on it , and sometimes she would type out a terse little message or two , such as , ‘ Wake up , Bourn ! ’ or ‘ There 's a war on , you know ! ’ |
| 15 | Her ears are so finely tuned to this that she can pick out a prospective mate 's voice from a cacophony of croaks . |
| 16 | The she can work out a different course to the Fraxilly sector . ’ |