Example sentences of "she [modal v] [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , if there is a further " selecting " qualifier , such as only , and if the speaker sees the latter as focusing on the property of the adjective , then it is quite reasonable that he or she may also feel it necessary to mark this focal adjectival property as one to be explicitly assigned , rather than being an ordinary part of the identificatory bundle . |
| 2 | As she grows , she must periodically shed her inelastic skin . |
| 3 | She hardened her heart and thought she should swiftly make it clear she had not come in search of him . |
| 4 | well the next time I get something , she 'll probably have her own place |
| 5 | This way she could simply wash it each morning and let it dry naturally — start trying for styles and valuable minutes had to be wasted keeping them the way they were meant to be . |
| 6 | She could finally drop her hated nickname Bruiser ! |
| 7 | But she could scarcely tell him that . |
| 8 | She could scarcely believe it all . |
| 9 | He took his hand away , but as she stumbled down the ladder she could still feel its warm weight . |
| 10 | And through the pain that twisted inside her she could still feel his physical attraction like a magnetic force — and she knew that every other woman in the room could feel it too . |
| 11 | She could still remember it all intensely : the swimming pool in which she had learnt to do a dog-paddle ; the ring game ; the endless stretch of blue ocean ; the vast liner as big as a city through which she and Pappy had wandered endlessly . |
| 12 | She could never change her deeper feelings because he was still a part of her growing up , part of her life , her first awakening of passion . |
| 13 | Tilly realised now that she could never tell her these things , and yet , she knew that the gentle Elizabeth had a right to know . |
| 14 | Almost as though he 's trying to memorise what I look like , thought Juliet , knowing she could never forget his brown eyes and curling eyelashes , and the smile that hovered on his lips . |
| 15 | She could almost feel her absent mother 's approval of her belated politeness . |
| 16 | He finished painting in a silence so icy she could almost feel its frosty fingers on her skin , then climbed down the ladder and handed her the paintbrush . |
| 17 | She could almost feel its fine , smooth texture under her fingertips and the heat of his beautifully muscled body through the fabric . |
| 18 | She could almost hear him sub-vocalizing the dreadful phrase — how vulgar it was ‘ three degrees over ’ . |
| 19 | But she could hardly tell him that ! |
| 20 | She could hardly believe him capable of such kindness . |
| 21 | She could hardly believe her own ears . |
| 22 | One white lone mother in my study noted that her mother was also a woman coping alone on a very limited income : ‘ she 'd rather put us first but I do n't want to see her go without . ’ |
| 23 | She 'd probably join him later . |
| 24 | Oh , he was handsome all right , she 'd even grant him sexy for those who liked their men tall , solid and apparently carved from granite . |
| 25 | At this rate she would have an accident , and she 'd only have her own stubbornness to blame for it . |
| 26 | Until she met the Crowley family she was a lost , lonely and abused teenager who was doing so much damage to herself that social workers said she 'd never see her eighteenth birthday . |
| 27 | Yeah but on the yeah but I mean if she sold it for thirty two she 'd still owe them nine thousand would n't she ? |
| 28 | She 'd still get her bloody fingers in there though ! |
| 29 | The literary articles were the result of her home study of literature — she had grown up during the establishment of the free library system in Britain , which she used extensively to supplement her elementary education . |
| 30 | When he eventually introduced himself , she politely told him that she would rather pay her own bill and had enough money to do so . |