Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She knew she ought to report the death , but felt she could not because of the passage of time . |
2 | She ought to leave the field open for the other girls . |
3 | She ought to feed the cat — and then there was the washing . |
4 | Nimue or the Lily Maid would require a model and the Princess can hardly be asked for so much of her time , though I hope she may think the time spent on ‘ Christabel before Sir Leoline ’ was not wholly wasted . |
5 | As a woman 's teenage children leave home , she may interpret the loss of the first as a welcome freedom . |
6 | She may hold the view that she has made provision for every eventuality and is therefore unlikely to experience any difficulties in combining work with parenthood . |
7 | He pays her to remain in obscurity , fearing she may reveal the respectability of his origins . |
8 | In the home she may ask the carer to perform the tasks of the assistant therapist . |
9 | Whichever way she attempts to retreat she may have the back end of a rabbit preventing her moving either way along the hole . |
10 | What reason could we produce to allow that she may have the capacity to act autonomously while denying her the capacity-to-act-autonomously ? |
11 | Or she may describe the interior of the home as difficult to clean : |
12 | Two methods tend to be used in this type of kidnapping : the woman may impersonate a nurse , giving the mother a bogus reason for taking her baby out of the room , or she may take the neonate from the nursery when nursing staff are not in the immediate area . |
13 | Somehow she must discover the extent of the threat to Edmund 's life . |
14 | She had learned only that she must leave the company soon , Mr Frobisher not being at all disposed to cross swords with Laurence . |
15 | There she had found her husband still snoring on her cot , and she had stretched out on his ; but sleep had n't come , and long before dawn she had decided she must leave the camp at once . |
16 | ‘ I 've had better tarts , ’ he said , and , walking to the door as she struggled into a sitting position , trying to restore her ruined self , for at some time she must leave the room and face her shattered world , he flung her his final insult . |
17 | Oh , no , she silently grieved , and as her conscience prodded away at her until she was in an agitated state of mental uproar , so all her disquieted spirits urged that the next time she saw Ven she must confess the whole of it to him . |
18 | She must confront the man , drive him off . |
19 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
20 | She must forget the girl and concentrate on helping Craig . |
21 | Granny 's son had been a gamekeeper on the estate , but now that he had gone elsewhere to work Sir Benson had given Granny notice that she must quit the cottage . |
22 | The housewife who knows that when her electric iron ceases to work she must replace the fuse ( let us say it is a cartridge fuse in a 13-amp plug ) is an empiricist . |
23 | Now she must remember the way that Cheta and Carlo took . |
24 | But her thoughts were brought to an abrupt end , as she descried two figures on their way up the path , and knew she must vacate the viewpoint for Rosie and her Francisco . |
25 | She disliked the thought , was surprised at the intensity of that dislike , but knew she must consider the possibility . |
26 | It was now three days since Bill Holroyd had promised to bring her ten thousand pounds and by now she must realize the likelihood of his appearance was decreasing . |
27 | She must get the bike before the car returned . |
28 | If recession and rising unemployment are now the results , she must share the blame . |
29 | Anna 's conscience said that she must report the whole of her interview at St Saviour 's faithfully to Peter , and then they could rejoice together that prayers had been answered , and that Pricewell 's could be abandoned . |
30 | She whispered that Klaus told her she must take the message from me after I 'd read it . |