Example sentences of "[coord] she would [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 2 | An anchoress had to be a woman of means or she would become a drain on the community . |
| 3 | He would throw paint imitating a comet ; and she would paint a part of the milky way . |
| 4 | Freedom , if only for a short time , and she would have a chance to speak to Rose , whom she had not seen since their evening out together up West . |
| 5 | We told her when they said her transplant was looking good and she would have a future after all . |
| 6 | Never before had she held a conversation with anyone like this , and she would begin a sentence and not know how to finish it . |
| 7 | And she would bake a chocolate mousse torte . |
| 8 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |
| 9 | Claudine is on the phone and she would like a word with you . ’ |
| 10 | And she would spear a piece of chicken and carry it high in the air towards that great black hole of a mouth and , still talking about her therapy , her plans for the future , his inability to understand her as a woman , his crude , male-orientated sexuality , she would munch , munch , munch … |
| 11 | And she would provide a substitute for the two weeks she reckoned it would take her , an English maid called Phoebe Crabbe with whom she had become friendly . |
| 12 | So somebody had told her to apply and she would get a grant , to help towards her special diet . |
| 13 | ‘ We used to go and sit in the park , on the river bank , and she 'd have a book and I 'd have a book … |
| 14 | She could have it out and she 'd have a lot of fun with it and on it . |
| 15 | She 'd spread my business all round the neighbourhood but she 'd lend a hand without grudging it . ’ |