Example sentences of "would [verb] she [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I 'd see her after the weekend and shouldered my bag . |
| 2 | When you found one you wanted you 'd take her into the centre for a dance , ’ he says . |
| 3 | She 'd been certain he 'd take her into the darkness and privacy of the back close . |
| 4 | Her reaction was as though he 'd hit her in the face , then she recovered , left the room and walked into the kitchen at the end of the hall . |
| 5 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 6 | She looked at Sophie 's stricken face and added , ‘ He told her that if she gave them some garbled story he would sack her on the spot . |
| 7 | Although he felt sure he would win her in the end , he was annoyed at her continuing coyness . |
| 8 | Neither of them knew her well , but they would recognise her as the secretary of someone important in the administration . |
| 9 | She imagined that to walk that track , and to climb the rough hewn rock around the mouth of the cave , would bring her to the top of the canyon . |
| 10 | She had thought then he would bring her into the shop , as he had herself , and trained her into the business , not only the confectionery and tobacconists , but the little factory across the yard where they made most of their boiled sweets and toffee . |
| 11 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 12 | Her brain raced over and over what her mother would say , how awful she would feel , what she ought to do , until she felt that the movement in her head would spin her off the bed and send her whirling round the room . |
| 13 | I would follow her around the house , clinging on to her skirt , unwilling to let her out of my sight , and demanding to be fed with some small token such as an apple or a piece of bread . |
| 14 | In order to make Victoria known to the people , Conroy would run her around the country on semi-royal tours , after the last of which , in 1835 , she succumbed to typhoid . |
| 15 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 16 | He wondered if Huddle would use her in the painting of the Visitation he was planning for one of the aisles . |
| 17 | No doubt he would see her at the vicarage . |
| 18 | It was doubtful that Lady Claudia would furnish her with the information she needed , no matter how much the family reputation was at stake . |
| 19 | He would meet her in the bar around six o'clock . |
| 20 | Early in the morning , after the Rotonde had closed , Modigliani would chase her up the street . |
| 21 | Nothing would move her from the belief and Maggie finally persuaded her to get undressed and have a sleep . |
| 22 | Occasionally I would take her into the lounge and Mum would have to keep back and hold a handkerchief over her nose and mouth so that she could n't smell the feathers . |
| 23 | Exploring that path would take her to the edge of a precipice over which she did not wish to step . |
| 24 | When she was older he would take her to the theatre , he had promised ; but not at present . |
| 25 | He said to her , Dr Wyn said to Elizabeth , that he would take her to the Fair . |
| 26 | Had he really said that he would share her with the whole of Fighter Command , or was that an erotic fantasy born of her own desire ? |
| 27 | Two men from poor northern city backgrounds , who later became very wealthy , tried to set up their elderly parents in comfort : Andrew Carnegie , American millionaire bachelor , gave his Scots mother , ‘ my best friend and trustiest counsellor ’ , a house and a carriage and pair as he had promised her when young , while a Manchester mill-owner failed to persuade his old mother to spend more than £1 a week , but ‘ would pet her like the sweetheart she was . ’ |
| 28 | Suddenly , it was the men who were reacting — usually with disgust , and they would ignore her for the rest of the journey . |
| 29 | He was pessimistic about Britain 's economic prospects and felt that a free-trade policy would leave her at the mercy of economic storms like that of 1931 . |
| 30 | He had invited her to join the ladies ' sewing circle , and even suggested that she might like to attend the Tuesday evening Bible readings which he ran — he was sure that ‘ dear Miss Mates ’ would release her for the hour and a half the readings usually took . |