Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] she [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the maid had arrived and was waiting for them she would have to be driven back to Mondano . |
| 2 | Julie decided to top up her Californian suntan until Kitty Summerville called lunch , after which she would take a casual stroll to another of her favourite haunts as a child , the old summer house on the river bank . |
| 3 | For a new patient this whole process may take upwards of an hour , after which she will see the doctor again and , if anything has been found , will be started on appropriate treatment . |
| 4 | Mr Bernard Staite , boss of the consortium who operate the loco , commented : ‘ From November No 4472 will embark on a year long tour of private railways after which she will have a major overhaul . |
| 5 | Molly felt similarly safe , brought to this strange place about which she would have clearly so much to learn . |
| 6 | It was , I felt sure , something about which she would have something to say . |
| 7 | This may take several hours during which she will lay small groups of eggs , which the male fertilises and covers with more bubbles . |
| 8 | There was a momentary silence during which she could imagine him rallying for another attack . |
| 9 | And if you tell her about somebody she 'll tell them . |
| 10 | She had thought of that first male kiss as opening a door inside her , through which she would step towards adulthood , real sex . |
| 11 | The spider may wait for developments sitting in the centre of the web or she may retreat to the side and lurk there with one of her eight legs resting on a cue-line through which she will feel movements in the trap . |
| 12 | She generally lived in a room next to the church , which had a window in the wall through which she could watch the Mass and receive the sacraments . |
| 13 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 14 | Gripping the hammer in one fist and propping the hatch up with her free hand , she crouched low so that she had about an inch gap through which she could see the back door . |
| 15 | She had taken him out into the garden to show him various easy spring tasks that must be done , and for which she would pay him , and he had refused . |
| 16 | Christine produced a new order form for the Lent Studies booklet and fliers for the Preparation Day on 30th January to be held in Dunblane Cathedral Hall , for which she would arrange tea , coffee , and a bookstall where it was hoped to have copies of the books mentioned as background reading for the Lent study . |
| 17 | Linguistic research which was meant to help women understand and change their reality is being used here to hurt them , if only by creating in the mind of the female reader one more problem , a linguistic inadequacy for which she must blame herself . |
| 18 | Pressed by Clem and Mrs Vaughan to stay the night , Leonora declined with grateful thanks , hoping her longing to escape was n't visible to Penry 's family , all of whom she would have liked to know better under other circumstances . |
| 19 | She asked herself which of them she should phone and found herself trembling at the thought of phoning any of them . |
| 20 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 21 | An additional financial burden for a woman in situations such as these may be that of arrears which have accrued , of which she may have been previously unaware ( Ginsburg , 1979 , p. 128 ) . |
| 22 | She held the bag between them , suddenly not daring to put it down in case it signalled something , the consequences of which she might regret . |
| 23 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 24 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 25 | At the end , through an open doorway , she glimpsed a bedroom , richly hung in peach-toned fabrics , expanded by yet more mirrors in one of which she could see the reflection of a large oil painting . |
| 26 | The roars and cheers of the crowd covered any sound she made and , like a wraith , she made for the stairs , sweating even in the bleak February cold at the thought of who she might meet in the unknown upstairs . |
| 27 | She had fantasised the meeting : she would be lying naked and on some screen in front of her she would see , pulsing and radiant , her own dark lover and his home place . |
| 28 | She 's just that if she did n't take that potion of mine she would have killed herself anyway . |
| 29 | But perhaps , by telling him of it she might break through the shell of quiet self-sufficiency and recollection that had kept her at bay since his return from Student Cross . |
| 30 | When Alice told her a little of how she felt ( some of it she could tell no one ) , and how she was angry with God as well as Belle Maman , Aunt Violet said God would understand : ‘ He is All Wise , Alice . |