Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] she [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she was out of here she would write to him and explain . |
| 2 | She was simply reminding Jaq of how she might continue to be useful . |
| 3 | What perhaps struck her the most was that , despite all , many of them appeared to be happy , while she , Sally-Anne , who could if she wished command the most luxurious life a woman could dream of , was most desperately unhappy , and had no idea of how she might become otherwise . |
| 4 | She had no idea of how she might use it : draining him of pity would be worse than draining him of money , and she would drown in guilt . |
| 5 | And then she thought of how she might find an answer to some of her questions . |
| 6 | They were lovely clothes , beautifully made from fine materials , and if Ellie took a tuck with her hand at the back of the dresses , and turned the hems up a good six or nine inches , looking in the dressing mirror she could get more than a fair impression of how she might look once she too was a young woman . |
| 7 | ‘ And she brought this outfit ’ — she touched Agnes 's sleeve — ‘ as a sample of how she would pay for her hats . |
| 8 | Franca had indeed had those fantasies , and continued to have them , of how she would kill her husband , smashing his head with a hammer , plunging a carving knife into his side , drugging him with sleeping pills and suffocating him . |
| 9 | He could n't help noticing how much she was being affected ; it was a sign , he supposed , of how she 'd come to consider the valley her home and its people her own . |
| 10 | And as she worked beside Silas one question hammered to demand an answer — the question of how she could have lost control of her own emotions when she 'd known that all he needed was time to sort out his own feelings for Doreen . |
| 11 | Three visits from her husband had helped , perhaps ( the first in the small hours of the Sunday morning , two hours after his release from custody ) , but some slight complications had arisen with continued internal bleeding , and she had become deeply and embarrassingly conscious of how she must appear to everyone whenever she smiled . |
| 12 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |
| 13 | She dragged a hand through her hair , only too aware of how she must look . |
| 14 | ‘ Later we can calm her , but for now she will continue like this until she grows tired . |
| 15 | From somewhere she could hear a lecturer droning ; maybe it needed speeding up a little . |
| 16 | From inside she could hear raised voices and a shrill cry , as if someone were in pain . |
| 17 | Its crushed her windpipe , and the doctors have put a pipe in so she can breathe . |
| 18 | From here she 'd get to know those whom Christine had known , perhaps find out where she 'd lived ; enter her skin , almost as if Christine were to walk again while Lucy became the ghost . |
| 19 | From here she could watch and wait for take-off , count the bombers out , bless them on their way . |
| 20 | She did n't dare raise her head to look through the window in case she was spotted , but at least from here she could make a fair guess at where Adam and the stranger were located in the room . |
| 21 | From here she could see the socket . |
| 22 | From here she could see into the fields . |
| 23 | From here she could see to the house , the standing stone between like a lightning . |
| 24 | From here she could see the folds of the surrounding hills and valleys , basking in the warm autumn sunshine . |
| 25 | From here she could get a glimpse of the houses : ‘ luxury ’ newly-built bungalows , double garages , big picture windows , young trees , landscaped gardens with lawns so smooth and green they could have been carpets . |
| 26 | I told them I would n't have her , I , I if they wanted to go on holiday I would n't have her , I could n't have her in here she 'd knock everything to bits , try to move everything in here that she would n't chew |
| 27 | From there she would stare hour after hour through the branches of the trees above as they swayed against the ever-changing sky , as if she was waiting to catch a glimpse of something precious she had lost a lifetime before . |
| 28 | From there she can have fun layering fashion clothes on top , such as comfortable stylish tunics , and her favourite box jackets . |
| 29 | From there she could have travelled to France or Belgium but it is not known whether she boarded a ferry . |
| 30 | From there she could see Barbara 's profile . |