Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 2 | If the dream were to lose its power , if she were somehow to prevent it recurring , she must face again the memory of that afternoon nearly thirty years ago . |
| 3 | Told her she must send out the original . |
| 4 | In all fairness , she should point out the entries that were suspect , so that they could find out what was amiss . |
| 5 | Raising a languid hand towards a grey-haired woman seated in an armchair beside the dog , and who looked as though she might patronise just the same sort of charity shops as Ellie herself , he introduced , ‘ My mother . ’ |
| 6 | And then she 'll sleep she wo n't sleep actually in the airing cupboard , she 'll sleep so the door 's wide open and she 's half way across the la , and she sleeps you know |
| 7 | If she can fight off that medication , she 'll take on the whole world . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't tell her or she 'll take on the mantleshelf . |
| 9 | She 'll say right going in she 'll say right the next lot will be going in in er ten minutes to one which may be a quarter of an hour 's time like , you know , so it 's all timed they do n't let a few there 's a the second go in . |
| 10 | Whichever way she 'll look much the same . |
| 11 | That 's where he 's away this weekend to her place , and then he 's going next weekend because there 's some wedding do or something er so he 's to go next weekend , he goes there , stays with her parents and then she 'll come down the weekend after that and stay at our house . |
| 12 | Then she retreated in bleak anguish to her bedroom , and sat hunched in the window-seat , looking out over the soft rolling lawns and distant Cotswold hills , dimly aware that her single most painful desire was that her mother were still alive , so she could pour out the secret desolation to the one person who 'd have understood … |
| 13 | She 'd never retire ; but she could fix up the house , put in some extra loos and bathrooms , have the kitchen completely refitted — get her business on a sound footing for the first time in her life . |
| 14 | Or else she could spin out the repair until it was too late and they had to get somebody else . |
| 15 | Clean and well organised , she could conjure up the best with the poorest ingredients . |
| 16 | It came to her that she could tell where the walls stopped being her skin only because the blue shaded down a spectrum from azure to sapphire . |
| 17 | Perhaps she could stay just the one night , then look for something cheaper in the morning . |
| 18 | But one day she asked if she could stay out the whole day , and away she went on her little pony , with her two dogs running behind . |
| 19 | She stripped off her clothes and dropped them where they fell , then ran a bath and climbed into it , scouring her skin over and over with a loofah as if she could wash away the memory of his body on hers . |
| 20 | At the edge of hearing , as she turned back into her room , she could make out the shuffling of crockery . |
| 21 | It was dark down below , but she could make out the shapes of beer kegs . |
| 22 | She could make out the man now . |
| 23 | Suddenly , beyond , in the black solidity she could make out the pattern in the sun-whitened rocks : the lips of craters . |
| 24 | It was difficult to see her backside in the mirror , but she could make out the pink weals which had been raised on her tender white bum-cheeks by the little squirt . |
| 25 | All the internal doors were open and she could make out the tumbled travel bags she had left half-packed and which now spilled their contents across the room . |
| 26 | From somewhere far away , she could make out the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle in a hurry . |
| 27 | Ahead of her , straight ahead , she could make out the grey hills on the far side of the estuary and to her right where the land first widened out and then melted away altogether , the sea flowed to the ocean , limitless , miles of moving , salty water . |
| 28 | But before she could set off the next day , the hospital telephoned with bad news . |
| 29 | Before she could set out the cups she had to remove a large heavy book — Crockford — which occupied the centre of the table . |
| 30 | Before she could reply , before she could sort out the details , even , he launched himself on her and stopped her mouth with his . |