Example sentences of "she would [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She 'd love a large family because she knows the joys of it . |
2 | SHE 'D love a quiet night at home in front of the telly . |
3 | ‘ I do n't think she 'd make a suitable mother for Kirsty . ’ |
4 | I do n't believe she 'd make a good mother for Kirsty . ’ |
5 | What a waste : she 'd make a fine wife for an intelligent man . ’ |
6 | And teacher would er tell us that next week with her spelling lesson she 'd want a new word , would we learn one at home ? |
7 | Madame would see Boy there , she 'd look at him and she 'd give a whole line straight to him ( Ca n't you see … |
8 | I 'm sure she 'd like a wee turn out and it 's no problem for me to look after the twins . ’ |
9 | She 'd run a blinkin' mile . ’ |
10 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
11 | She thought she 'd get a good mark . |
12 | If she left a dictionary in the cupboard , by heaven , she 'd get a good game of Scrabble out of a can of alphabet soup . |
13 | I 'd be anchored where I reckoned she 'd get a little shelter from the bay in which she lay , but with a gentle south-westerly and no sign of any break in the weather , I was n't worried about her , and took the easiest line ashore . |
14 | Well , with any luck she 'd get a fair return on her outlay , in deep satisfaction . |
15 | At least there the floor would be still , and she would n't be feeling so horribly queasy , and she 'd have a dry bed . |
16 | Then last night she said she would n't come tonight because there was nothing on — she 'd have a quiet night in her room . |
17 | so she 's er , she 's waiting for 'em to come to do that , anyway she 's er , somebody rang her did n't they and they asked her if she 'd have a little boy of four months old , Thursdays and Fridays all day and she started this week with him , so I said well Pauline |
18 | Well , if the norm in the Church was the Bishop and Miss Tilley , you could see she 'd have a fair amount of concealing to do . |
19 | Perhaps she 'd find a flashing neon sign to stick in the parson 's nose . |
20 | They were n't badly off because I do believe they ran a car and she would wear a lovely fox fur when she was out and about in the dale . |
21 | More than anything she would love to be Kirsty 's guardian and , in spite of the harsh things Jake had said to her , she knew , if that happened , she would do a good job . |
22 | Now she would be sent to a convent of the same order in Dublin where she would do a secretarial course . |
23 | Well , she would do a brave thing , for once . |
24 | ‘ I should think she would welcome a regular salary instead of her present partnership , which can only yield peanuts at the moment . ’ |
25 | Instead of flowers she would carry a satin-covered prayerbook with one deep cream rose . |
26 | Butch said that she would favour a dark-complected co-star . |
27 | Yes , she would open a new post office account , and not tell Jasper . |
28 | ‘ It breaks my back , my neck — ’ And she would give a little laugh , unclasping a heavy bracelet : ‘ It breaks my wrist too . ’ |
29 | She would make a good wife , when he decided to settle down . |
30 | At one stage her mother had felt she would make a good doctor and did all she could to encourage her to take up medicine . |