Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She must sit on the pot until it cool so the vapour can come up her inside , ’ the thin woman commanded . |
| 2 | she must have on the christening |
| 3 | She should look on the bright side , she kept trying to tell herself . |
| 4 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 5 | And no , they had not been expecting to see her that weekend , though with Giles away she had said she might come on the Sunday . |
| 6 | That alone would be terrible without any danger she might encounter on the way . |
| 7 | He had even made a suggestion about a piece she might write on the role of women in the Tory Party , perhaps in the Government Whips ' Office . |
| 8 | ‘ And she 'll transmit on the hour ? ’ |
| 9 | She 'll sit on the toilet half shaped |
| 10 | Mrs Falconer , a senior lecturer in textiles , has been told there is funding for only one textile lecturer in the school , but that she could remain on the staff if she accepted demotion to ordinary lecturer — a post already held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 11 | She has , however , been informed that she could remain on the RGU staff if she accepted a demotion to ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Mrs Barbara Diack , who , in turn , would lose her job . |
| 12 | Mrs Falconer is facing compulsory redundancy and has been told that she could stay on the staff if she accepts demotion to ordinary lecturer — a post already held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 13 | She looked , however , as if she was fairly determined to give her views on the matter , but before she could start on the Why do they come over here if they do n't like it ? speech or her I believe in respecting people 's religious feelings but would die to defend their right to disagree with me speech , Maisie came round the door . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , she wo n't know if nobody tells her , ’ said Camille , but , in truth , she knew she could depend on the discretion of her friends . |
| 15 | Ruth surveyed the freshly-turned earth and looked around for a flower she could place on the grave , but it was the last day of December and there was nothing in bloom . |
| 16 | She could turn on the spot by rotating the cylinders fore and aft in opposite directions and at different speeds . |
| 17 | She slid in and around the one who was dressing , and set a couple of coffees down in what limited space she could see on the table . |
| 18 | She did n't know where this conversation was leading , but gut feeling told her that she could bank on the destination 's being rather unpleasant . |
| 19 | But at least she could write on the card , ‘ On examination nothing abnormal detected ’ . |
| 20 | She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed having on the premises ; most of her other visitors she merely tolerated and a few of them had the power to make her feel violated . |
| 21 | And she 'd go on the demonstrations in it too , I 've seen her at a rally in a park dragging that beaded hem through the mud . |
| 22 | St Richards was fun and strict , with not enough to eat and high academic standards ; I developed a crush on the assistant matron who had a phenomenally large chest ; I liked her because she used to sit on the ends of our beds and talk to us before we went to sleep . |
| 23 | She would knock on the door , and her mother would open it . |
| 24 | When she was castaway on Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs — a year before taking over the show — Sue told the then presenter Michael Parkinson that the luxury she would want on the island would be an endless supply of clean sheets and an iron . |
| 25 | What she could do she had no idea ; but she would stand on the cliff top at Dover and heave rocks at the arrogant sods , if that was what it took . |
| 26 | Instead of completing her college course , she would draw on the money her English grandmother had left her and go straight into business for herself . |
| 27 | With her flat bottom , she would swim on the tide , all gear dropped , cunningly making use of the hidden drifts . |
| 28 | Only the senior librarian remained constant , Joyce Babcock , a contemporary of Helen 's , stuck as far as she would get on the ladder of professional advancement , suspicious of the girls but tolerant of Helen , who offered no threat . |
| 29 | She would wait on the landing instead . |
| 30 | She would concentrate on the job in hand instead , and get it done as quickly and cleanly as possible . |