Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe she should invest in a few more elaborate bio-amendments .
2 It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour .
3 If she could fit in a few days ' break in order to attend the wedding in Andorra she would , she promised , and Peter returned to Rocamar the next day , leaving Sarella to close one chapter of her life and get on with the next .
4 Wrapped up in the everyday business of looking after her newborn baby , Belinda felt fine : she could cope for a few days .
5 Lili relented , or perhaps she could think of no more artifacts to describe .
6 Unless she could dispose of the same modern means of transport and production , the same machinery and armaments , Russia could not hope to uphold her political independence .
7 ‘ The next day she would always phone to say that she had been in and she 'd pick on a few things that she was n't quite happy with . ’
8 The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll .
9 But for now , she would not allow herself to think , she would rest for a few hours and then make arrangements to deal with business matters .
10 It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit .
11 She would drown within a few minutes .
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