Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] " 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 | Told her she must send out the original . |
| 3 | Marjorie , however , feels that she must put in an appearance downstairs , however token , before he leaves for work , and there is a sense in which Vic understands and approves of this gesture . |
| 4 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 5 | In all fairness , she should point out the entries that were suspect , so that they could find out what was amiss . |
| 6 | Even if she did , she might end up a helpless vegetable . |
| 7 | She set the candelabrum and the tray down on one of the tables , removing his greatcoat and placing it carefully over the back of a chair so that she might lay out a cloth and utensils . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'll go down a treat in Shipley . ’ |
| 9 | You see — the calf muscle on the left leg just does n't work , so if I do n't do something quickly she 'll end up a cripple . |
| 10 | If she can fight off that medication , she 'll take on the whole world . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't tell her or she 'll take on the mantleshelf . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | How ironic now to think that she 'd planned the event partly to prove she was capable of organising something major — to show Adam she could pull off a real coup . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Or else she could spin out the repair until it was too late and they had to get somebody else . |
| 17 | Clean and well organised , she could conjure up the best with the poorest ingredients . |
| 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 could make up a story , say she suffered temporary amnesia , or that she was knocked unconscious by thieves and all her money was gone , but she doubted she could make it sound believable . |
| 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 | Franca even wished that she could set up a relation of some kind with him . |
| 29 | But before she could set off the next day , the hospital telephoned with bad news . |
| 30 | Before she could set out the cups she had to remove a large heavy book — Crockford — which occupied the centre of the table . |