Example sentences of "she [modal v] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ill-starred daughter , of whose birth on 8 December 1542 James heard on his deathbed , was kept at Linlithgow for seven months , by which time it had been agreed that she should in the fullness of time marry Edward , heir to Henry VIII of England . |
| 2 | , well she should after a while . |
| 3 | But , cling as she might to the bolster she had taken with her to stop her screams , she could not stop shaking . |
| 4 | She looked out to sea , as far as she could through the mist , and thought of great trees whispering under the waves . |
| 5 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 6 | There was no pressure on her to help him , but still she 'd agreed to get together as much information on Jenner as she could over the weekend . |
| 7 | She had to stand on her toes and reach up as high as she could with a walking-stick in order to hook the hat off the peg , and even then she only just made it . |
| 8 | Drawing back her arm , she hit him as hard as she could across the face . |
| 9 | A hard light in her eyes , she drew back her arm and hit him as hard as she could across the face . |
| 10 | There was no clear path , she was just winding through trees and keeping as close as she could to the direction he had shown . |
| 11 | Though that was easier said than done she would do her best , and try instead to enjoy what she could of the coming seven days , and treat each day as a holiday and as if she had n't a care in the world . |
| 12 | He had so manipulated the situation that if she wanted to do what she could for the twins she had no alternative but to agree to his terms . |
| 13 | Somehow she rose over her excitement , though , and concentrated all she could on the task at hand . |
| 14 | Sycorax fainted , and Ariel bent her cheek to the discoloured cheek of the old woman and licked the salt that fell in her tears , and when she reached the cabin took her inside where the rush screens would keep the flies off her wounds , and made her as comfortable as she could on the ground , with fresh dressings on her burns , a cool soaked cloth on her forehead . |
| 15 | ‘ Those who can not hear must feel the rod of correction , ’ she declaimed , raising the stick as she advanced , Martha let out a shriek , leaped to her feet and , barely aware of her action , hit the old woman as hard as she could on the side of the head , knocking her against the wall . |
| 16 | She preferred to eat as many of these as she could on the spot , as they were too messy to take away . |
| 17 | If he put down sheets of newspaper in the kitchen to keep the floor clean on wet days , one of his cats would back up to the far wall and then launch herself as fast as she could at the papers . |
| 18 | She was wearing a pair of off-white trousers , which she had cuffed as much as she could at the ankles because of the heat , and a plain navy-coloured T-shirt , neither of which sported designer labels . |
| 19 | As she reached her father 's house she walked straight in at the gate , which she hardly bothered to open quietly , and flung the stone as hard as she could at the glass of the bedroom window . |
| 20 | She pulled over as far as she could into the bushes at the side of the lane and slowed down while the car , a beaten-up old Ford , passed . |
| 21 | When Caroline had signed a year 's contract with International Models , it had been because she 'd wanted to learn everything she could about the fashion business . |
| 22 | She had taken the trouble first to find out what she could about the topic from the notes given , and had thought about it carefully , so that in a real sense she was herself involved in what was happening in the classroom . |
| 23 | Instead she walked as fast as she could towards the river , past the mean little houses below the cathedral . |
| 24 | While the rider tried to hold on , to calm the horse and to prevent himself being thrown , Ruth ran as fast as she could towards the wood . |
| 25 | ‘ She did the only thing she could under the circumstances . |
| 26 | Claire Claremont arrived , giggling and nuzzling up to Byron when she could in a manner distinctly unlike her half-sister 's . |
| 27 | She could in no way be glad that Timothy Gedge would come regularly to the rectory : that prospect was grim . |
| 28 | ‘ But , Noreen — ’ But Noreen was already walking away as fast as she could in the direction of the apartment house . |
| 29 | Elizabeth had done all she could in the circumstances to provide the best possible start in life for her sons once her husband had died . |
| 30 | With fitzAlan , de Villiers and a chastened but still influential Bishop of Winchester listening to every word , Isabel had answered as best she could in the hope that by doing so she might appease her conscience . |