Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One dimension might be in this time , as we have seen , the mother might reach a stage where , she , it 's in her productive self interest to start another offspring , and she may want to wean the existing one , so she can do that . |
| 2 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 3 | There was one girl , however , who knew what she must do to please the Great Spirits . |
| 4 | His hands relaxed from their tight grip on the steering-wheel ; she must have said the right thing for once . |
| 5 | She must have loved the real father of Phena very much if she was willing to put up with all of this . |
| 6 | Subconsciously , she must have sensed the potent effect he could have on her , an instinctive recognition of the dangerous power he would assume if once she had known his touch . |
| 7 | Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it . |
| 8 | The girl let go of my hand and moved away into the gloom behind me , where she must have put the screwed-up five-pound notes on to the chest of drawers with the magazines , the small framed photograph , the towel , the box of paper tissues , the jar of Vaseline , the baby 's dummy and all the other odds and ends spilled over the varnished oak top . |
| 9 | She will be sad , of course , but she must learn to make the best of it . ’ |
| 10 | For a little while she 'd almost managed to forget about Marianne. , She should have known the other woman would n't allow that to remain the case for very long . |
| 11 | She realized that she might have made the same mistake as Joan Durbeyfield . |
| 12 | If Anya were n't so busy pretending to study the licence number on the car in front of us , she might have noticed the momentary ripple of light across the glass . |
| 13 | She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence . |
| 14 | She was only in college the one year , less than a year if you — we just wondered if she tried to buy some here , that 's all , and that could be how she might have met the wrong kind of people . |
| 15 | She might have found the dozen tiles , but now she had to retrieve them . |
| 16 | Gordon Strachan OBE is simply unbelievable , and if HRH has been shown highlights of the game yet , I expect she 'll have popped the hereditary peerage in the post for him . |
| 17 | In fact , she 'll have to eat the same amount of calories as Mary — rather than what she ate before — or she 'll eventually regain the lost weight . |
| 18 | There was nothing she could do to disguise the swift rise and fall of her breasts and his eyes rested there before returning to capture her own gaze . |
| 19 | She could 've had the same thing free on the National Health ! |
| 20 | Thankfully , I handed over my pens to Rosemary so that she could finish plotting the latest chart , and escaped outside for a few breaths of fresh air . |
| 21 | What a difference — the lady in charge agreed that she could continue to wear the old leotard until it was too small , even though the colour was different . |
| 22 | She could recall seeing the first black insect flying towards her and then she must have fainted . |
| 23 | I wished she could have done the same for me . |
| 24 | The most upsetting thing for me has been to see her medical notes and realise that she could have got the right treatment at home … that is if her country was n't being torn apart by war |
| 25 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 26 | She 'd have to get the next one . |
| 27 | In fact , if it had n't been an important point of principle not to let the damn impertinent man get away with his nauseating behaviour , she 'd have let the whole thing drop . |
| 28 | And I mean if she got this job she 'd have to pay the full amount , if she 's on Income Support you do n't do you ? |
| 29 | I was very worried so her owner said she would arrange to have the two largest removed surgically . |
| 30 | And he was right in one way — she would love to get the better of him very decisively . |