Example sentences of "she [modal v] [vb infin] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shape of the budget line changes to 175 ; after point 7 the individual can consume more of good X , but to do so she must give up some quantity of good Y. In the example shown the new welfare maximum for the individual is on the corner point , 7 . |
| 2 | She could go her own way , or she must hand over that rebellious will , and seek God 's forgiveness for the years when she had been downright disobedient and pushed Him out of her life . |
| 3 | She told herself sternly that she must shake off this tendency towards romantic fantasy . |
| 4 | But as soon as she heard Mrs Whitfield 's voice she knew she must pay out more of her time and attention to the situation than she thought . |
| 5 | She might come in useful . |
| 6 | She might get over this present illness but would only fall victim to the first virus that came along . |
| 7 | They would be from Canada , from her sister Louise who would suggest that she might put up various old acquaintances passing through London , or find a suitable family for a darling Austrian boy , not so very much older than Martha , whose father was a kind of Count , but was also in the import-export business , or try to recall a splendid person , the friend of a friend of hers who had had a very , very sad story . |
| 8 | She 'll end up pregnant , married at . |
| 9 | ‘ But do n't forget , she 'll grow up one day too and then yer 'll be sorry . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She 'll grow up one day . ’ |
| 11 | She 'll cry over more than that before she 's finished . ’ |
| 12 | It was the first inkling she had that she could end up homeless . |
| 13 | Going over to the window , she could make out odd moon shadows on the garden . |
| 14 | Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea . |
| 15 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 16 | Perhaps she could go down next time there was a one-day match and drive him to Taunton herself , interview some of the club 's officers , work something up . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you booked in anywhere ? ’ he went on to enquire before she could sort out any kind of an answer . |
| 18 | Fen suggested , and not for the first time Robbie wished she could clear up this misapprehension . |
| 19 | She did not feel she could turn down such charity without proof of the necessary conditions of rejection . |
| 20 | ‘ She deliberately kept us in the dark because she wanted to prove that she could get over this monster barrier of performing live on her own . |
| 21 | Despite her threat she doubted if she could summon up enough voice to scream . |
| 22 | Harriet glanced around , wondering if she could slip out unnoticed . |
| 23 | She wondered how she could fill in some of the gaps . |
| 24 | Thus accoutred , she could take on all comers . |
| 25 | Meggie helped Mum , Granny sat there , wishing she could take on any job , as usual . |
| 26 | Young Whizzquid and his City friends can not be expected to toil on Aunt Agatha 's behalf for nothing , and the spread between offer prices and bid — between what she puts in and what she could take out five minutes later — is around 6% . |
| 27 | Other women joined in saying , some in detail , what they would do to the German soldiers , and one woman , generally considered to be a part-time prostitute , boasted that she could see off any German . |
| 28 | I should have known she 'd bring up that old chestnut . |
| 29 | When he came back she said she 'd go out herself tomorrow , and if he tried to stop her she 'd smash up all his crockery . |
| 30 | She supposed she 'd take over that duty , which possibly would make her unpopular back in the lab . |