Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When the flight to Nice was called , she informed a brisk blue-uniformed redhead that she was feeling ill and thought she 'd better cancel her ticket . |
| 32 | She looked at his imploring face , and felt a stab of guilt , that he was right , that she 'd better take care … . |
| 33 | As soon as she could , without appearing rude , she said she 'd better take Lisa home . |
| 34 | He 's mad , he 's mad , Ruth thought ; but she dared not leave him . |
| 35 | As the train stopped she rushed to the window , though she dared not open it . |
| 36 | She was so glad that Len was back by her side , and yet she dared not tell him why , because he would only be angry and perhaps start a fight and worry afterwards anyway . |
| 37 | And while she longed to tell him the truth , she dared not do so . |
| 38 | An ache that she dared not examine too closely . |
| 39 | How he would take to having somebody prying she dared not think . |
| 40 | She touched on the word with delicacy , as if she dared not think of it . |
| 41 | Maybe seven minutes had passed but she dared not wait any longer because who knew when the miners might give up and come back ? |
| 42 | Occasionally a cheeky shop girl in town , caring nothing , and with nothing to lose , would face her out , but Clara on these occasions felt such anxiety and associated shame that she dared not rejoice . |
| 43 | The men disappeared behind a distant quayside shed , but she dared not trust to luck and hid behind a winch . |
| 44 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 45 | And the one question she wanted to put to him , she dared not ask : ‘ Do you still love me ? ’ |
| 46 | Jenna looked up , but she dared not look further than the hard chest , the white shirt still showing signs of damp . |
| 47 | She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time . |
| 48 | She felt uneasy ; she did not fit in here at all . |
| 49 | The adult Eileen was quite intelligent enough to understand the devastating effects of those careless words on the child she had been — although she did not blame her mother in any way for using them . |
| 50 | She did not blame them . |
| 51 | She did not blame herself for going on the cruise , although she sensed that Adam , always an opportunist , had taken advantage of her absence . |
| 52 | She did not blame Sarah in the least . |
| 53 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 54 | The writing seemed vaguely familiar , but she did not guess the identity of the sender until she opened it and read , ‘ Dear Mrs Markham , ’ |
| 55 | But she did not guess this was how it would be on her first morning . |
| 56 | Certainly she presented me with my medal for the 100 metres and as I stood on the plinth she did not bat an eyelid . |
| 57 | Although she did not watch the videos he made , through discussion she was able to help him to gain control of a class which had initially been ‘ unteachable ’ and to design a workcard and organize lessons in a planned way . |
| 58 | She did not fail to apprehend the knowing gaze in his good eye . |
| 59 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |
| 60 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |