Example sentences of "she would [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would wear the Persian lamb to the meeting of the Symphony Orchestra Club tonight , even if it was a bit warm . |
| 2 | Tonight she would wear the swinging strands of rolled gold ending in one large crystal drop . |
| 3 | It was too bad of me , I knew she would do the decent thing if I put it like that . |
| 4 | She would miss the two dogs now she had returned them to their home . |
| 5 | If she had known of how the Greeks slaughtered the bearers of bad tidings she might have taken longer to decide it was her duty , but , as it was , she saw no need to fear for herself , only for the person to whom she would relate the devastating news . |
| 6 | After she moved to Durban in February to be with her boyfriend , she vowed she would show the beautiful region to Julie , her best friend from college days . |
| 7 | But she prayed to heaven and promised that , should she be spared , she would devote the first fruit of her womb to Christ 's service . |
| 8 | She could imagine it all back at Les Hiboux — was already planning out loud where she would place the various pieces , while Rohan and Monsieur Pallon exchanged indulgent glances , and settled the details of how and where it was all to be delivered . |
| 9 | He would thrash ; and she would make the same wound and stitch it . |
| 10 | He remembered the art exhibition at Royalbion House and how he had thought she would make the ideal companion for his life . |
| 11 | If the queen cat was satisfied from her seven matings with one tom , she would leave the other males in the lurch and make for home . |
| 12 | ( 184 ) She would swallow it all up , she would assimilate the evil news and make it not to be … |
| 13 | Then she would dress the youngest child . |
| 14 | They named their eldest son Benjamin , after his maternal grandfather , and she would tell the young lad when he grew up of how she had been taught piano and organ by Benjamin James her father , there in that big house in Curry Rivel where they used to hang hams or sides of bacon in the huge chimney piece . |
| 15 | How she would handle the top job when so many others had years of working experience in the service was a different matter . |
| 16 | They were in the suburbs and she replied that she would prefer the Royal Avenue Hotel in the centre of the city . |
| 17 | Carnations for Luiza , irises for the sensible Frau Hoflin , red camellias for Ingrid ( she would love the tenuous connection with La Traviata ) , cream and yellow roses for little Suzi Hoflin , a spray of mixed violets and primroses — rather clever — for Madge Grimsilk , and finally , with a flourish … |
| 18 | She would issue the new instructions regarding strangers and then she would have to see Mr Lee about a permanent bodyguard here in the house , someone who would blend in … a manservant . |
| 19 | She would get the three penny stamps from the machine for a start . |
| 20 | be , she would get the same amount paid per week or you can have the increasing one where it would increase erm in line with inflation . |
| 21 | One such was the Countess of Portland , who at Carisbrook Castle ‘ declared she would fire the first cannon ’ rather than surrender . |
| 22 | Her daughter would be perpetually in her debt , perpetually chained to her , and she would have the new stimulus of another baby to bring up . |
| 23 | At other times she would have the odd sensation that they were shouting at her , through a megaphone , from a rowing-boat that was pulling swiftly away towards a distant ship . |
| 24 | Nutty privately thought she would have the worst score of the lot . |
| 25 | Once more they could reveal themselves to each other — not just physically , because with every gesture she made she knew she would reveal the one thing he must never know — the fact that she loved him . |
| 26 | Quickly she decided not to go into the garden ; instead she would climb the nearby tower block and see her garden from above . |
| 27 | No one asks the woman in the part-time job in the bookshop whether she would like the extra maternity leave and all the rest of the baggage , or whether she would prefer to keep her job . |
| 28 | Once she had the confidence to walk outside , she would see the older children to the bus-stop and then perhaps go shopping or meet friends . |
| 29 | At least she could step out of the door and be among people ; she would hear the familiar sound of traffic whizzing past the door at all hours of the day and night . |
| 30 | At best , existence after death would resemble the interlude she was now experiencing while reclining in a deckchair : from all sides , she would hear the continuous babble of female voices . |