Example sentences of "she would [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally burst into such a fit of giggling , Jess thought she 'd explode from the tight lacings of her bodice . |
| 2 | It might be part of her job to parade through the ballroom but she surely did n't want to have to prattle facts and figures for what she was wearing now , a skin-tight concoction of bugle heads and sequins that probably cost more than she 'd make for the entire year . |
| 3 | Although she 'd protest at the mere notion , she sacrificed a possible future career as a contralto — to put marriage and the family first . |
| 4 | One thing that he noticed ; every now and again she 'd glance at the uncurtained window , as if she was checking the progress of the oncoming darkness . |
| 5 | " You take after your father , liking sex , " she 'd say in the regretful tone you might use for a hereditary disease . |
| 6 | I had no idea how old and crotchety she 'd become over the last few years . ’ |
| 7 | As Creggan and Kraal continued to tell their dearest memories , night began to fall and Minch began to plan out what she would do in the limited time she felt she had left to her . |
| 8 | She is forced to go faster than she would choose by the intimidating bulk of lorries nudging up behind her , their radiator grilles looming like cliffs in her rear-view mirror , the drivers high above , out of sight . |
| 9 | After this she would return to the far wall and wait for the papers to be put back into place , so she could repeat the game . |
| 10 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 11 | Tomorrow , she would go to the finest jeweller in London and sell the gems for the best price she could get . |
| 12 | She would go to the far side and we would watch each other . |
| 13 | She would go into the bad woman 's shop . |
| 14 | Then , knowing that she was safely tucked up in her own bed , she would go through the mental exercise as she had done under hypnosis and imagine herself entering that cupboard under the stairs . |
| 15 | The simplest proposition seemed to call for endless repetitive explanation ; her steaks had become increasingly rare , and , most tiresome of all , whenever they made love , be it after breakfast , lunch or tea , she would leap from the marital bed and turn on the vacuum cleaner , spending the next twenty minutes cleaning an already spotless house . |
| 16 | She would leave at the first opportunity , and never again would she listen to the reckless promptings of her heart . |
| 17 | She swore — yet again — that she would leave off the rich food , forget the drink , but even as she making the promise , she knew she would not be able to keep to it . |
| 18 | She would leave by the back door and pick up a taxi several blocks away . |
| 19 | She would joke about the young ‘ uns with fat bums , riding around in cars and we would marvel at the so-called disabled people dismounting briskly from buses or climbing energetically from orange-badged cars . |
| 20 | It was the duty of the medicine man of the line of Armijas to tutor the spirit warrior through the Seven Levels , to prepare her for the final battle , in which she would stand with the other spirit warriors — the Holy Woman From Across the Great Water , the Man With Music in His Heart , the Red-Handed One , the Yellowlegs Who Has Lost Much , the Great Father in White , the Man Who Rides Alone — against the army of the manitous and the story would end . |
| 21 | Admission to a psychiatric unit was not thought necessary because she was able to make realistic plans concerning how she would cope during the next few days , and support was available from her children . |
| 22 | She said that she would travel by the next one and should be at the hotel about eight clock . |
| 23 | Her mother was killed in a train accident and her father , without looking at her , for he very rarely looked at her , told her that she would continue at the local school . |
| 24 | She wanted to be able to sit there and be like them , to sit there and sip Coke and not to have to worry about whether she would laugh at the right moments . |
| 25 | He had never , before , seriously thought that she would get beyond the occasional sisterly peck on the cheek , or allowing him the privilege of listening to her troubles . |
| 26 | She would get through the next few days of being in the same house as Piers and then she would leave , and she would somehow get through the rest of her life without him . |
| 27 | So then I saw Mrs Irwin on Tuesday when I was in and she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the new development . |
| 28 | A professional decorator told me years ago that when carrying out domestic painting , he always asked the lady of the house the shade she would like for the finished coat . |
| 29 | She came to It via an employment agency , and , while others slept on the floor , worked , argued , or posed , she would work through the clerical , jobs , type , organize . |
| 30 | She would play in the dark shed , where there were millions of daddy-long-legs , or stand about watching him while he dug . |