Example sentences of "that she must [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 She thought , for a moment , that she must go mad .
2 With a sinking heart , she also realised that she must go on living with the Ward family , at least for now .
3 At last the party broke up when Felicity announced that her spine felt as though it were about to collapse and that she must go to bed .
4 ‘ I only painted what I saw , ’ he answered and she had again that sudden , stupid stab of fear and pushed his handkerchief at him saying that she must go , she was late .
5 He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go .
6 Her husband , however , became extremely insistent and started following her and insisting that she must sign the papers .
7 His fierce pride demanded that she must assume their meeting had been coincidental .
8 Conscious that she must make the most of these last weeks , and grateful for all the happiness and love which she had enjoyed in childhood , she was nevertheless eager for the days to pass and for the news to come that João had arrived from Lisbon to collect his bride .
9 As she read on , day after day , often by candlelight , through St Matthew and St Mark and on to St Luke and St John it seemed to her a message was reaching her and that message was that she must face her own wickedness .
10 She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death .
11 Joan too had heard the current gossip and had lain awake for much of the previous night , persuading herself it was a fabrication and that she must give no heed to wagging tongues .
12 Already exhausted from her night 's activities , she was also acutely aware that she must give no sign of tiredness for fear of arousing suspicion .
13 In his frustration and anger , he had told her that she must give herself as well before he would take them .
14 It 's because of that talk with Helen , she mused , and decided that she must tell John about her grievance when he came home .
15 It was a moment of magic that she must cherish for it would never come again .
16 He gave France stronger armed forces , insisted that she be respected on the world stage and believed that she must rely on her own resources for survival .
17 Mrs Davis pointed out tartly that Mrs Stych was not at present serving on any of their other subcommittees , and that she must do something to help .
18 She saw that she must do exactly that — run away from him as he had suggested , but as far away as she could go !
19 After a fortnight 's visit with her mother to her aunt Mrs Poole at Ramsgate , Helen decided that she must earn some money and , if possible , live away from home where her mother 's grief-stricken restrictions and excessive dependency — so she thought — would curtail that freedom of action and expression in which her father had encouraged her .
20 When told what the leaves were — for Poison Oak is well known across the Atlantic as a cause of severe contact dermatitis — she decided that she must wash vigorously ; and this she did about 1½ hours after touching the leaves .
21 As the lift doors opened and she stepped out into the corridor , it occurred to her that she must strike a very different figure from the wide-eyed girl who had made that first visit .
22 Granny 's son had been a gamekeeper on the estate , but now that he had gone elsewhere to work Sir Benson had given Granny notice that she must quit the cottage .
23 It was the knowledge that she must leave Susan that hurt most of all .
24 She had learned only that she must leave the company soon , Mr Frobisher not being at all disposed to cross swords with Laurence .
25 The time flew and at three o'clock Madame Delon rose , saying that she must leave now to catch her bus .
26 She told herself sternly that she must shake off this tendency towards romantic fantasy .
27 After only a brief time in this balmy atmosphere , Constance knew that she must stay .
28 They all assumed , blandly , blithely , that she must stay in London , or go abroad ; that the guilt must be endured , and no question about it .
29 Dr Macdonald cut through the guilt with his paternalistic authority , more powerful in the hospital than her father 's , and insisted that she must stay where she was .
30 In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her .
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