Example sentences of "she would [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she was n't home by then I 'd have to go and fetch her , knowing she 'd be slumped in a drunken stupor on the pavement , open-legged and snotty-nosed , against the wall of the High Fields pub . |
| 2 | She 'd be tucked beneath the blanket and the heavy coat and watching Gloria put on her make-up before she went out . |
| 3 | She 'd be checking under the bed next ! |
| 4 | Perdita , covering the bottom of the lorries with straw to protect the ponies ' feet , suddenly heard Alejandro shouting that she better dig out a pair of clean breeches and polish her boots , as she 'd be playing in the match that afternoon . |
| 5 | she 'd be climbing in the inside of it and ripping it |
| 6 | And she 'd be sitting on the edge of her chair with a smile stitched to her face as she willed the rest of the party to get a move-on so she could go and make sure Camille was home and safe . |
| 7 | But after a moment 's silence he said , as if casually , ‘ She 's a scamper , that one ; into every hole and corner , if I remember rightly , so she 's likely stayed out late and is frightened to go home — if old man Walton had a load on she 'd be introduced to the buckle end of his belt . |
| 8 | She 'd be sunk without a trace . |
| 9 | She still had n't admitted to the other woman that she was n't at all sure she 'd be returning to the music business . |
| 10 | Then she would be comforted by the thought that , once married , lovers lived happily ever after . |
| 11 | On the basis of this analysis , a child with severe learning difficulties might have both delayed language , in that she would be functioning at a level below that normally expected for children of her age , and a deficit if her language skills were more severely affected than other areas . |
| 12 | He thought it unlikely she would be influenced by the disappointment he had dealt to her plan for a play about the Wall . |
| 13 | Silently praying she would be forgiven for the lie , she gave a small shrug . |
| 14 | She would be faced with a choice . |
| 15 | When she told him she had no intention of coming back and working for him , that her mind was made up and she would be staying with the Miss Cardings until she found other employment , he had became almost pathetic in his pleading : he could n't do without her . |
| 16 | I wonder if she has yet worked out that for every douse she has to pull less load ; probably not , or she would be pissing on the wood . |
| 17 | One woman explained that before she was married , she would be sent into the capital city " to look for domestic work when the harvest had been poor or some additional expense , such as medicine or a funeral , had to be covered . |
| 18 | Now she would be sent to a convent of the same order in Dublin where she would do a secretarial course . |
| 19 | She would be dressed in a new cotton serwal with its inches of gold and silver thread at the ankle . |
| 20 | Her body was alive , throbbing with pulses she never knew she had , and as she jerked her face away from his she knew he had once again defeated her , outclassed her , and she knew without a doubt that he was right : if there was ever a real fight between her and Damian Flint , he would take supremacy , she would be overpowered by the fierce excitement burning in her now , and he would walk away with victory on a scale she did not dare imagine . |
| 21 | She would be lodged in the royal palace within the Tower , with servants a-plenty to serve and chaperon her . |
| 22 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 23 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 24 | She spoke as though she would be acting with the most humane consideration , and even Ella was nonplussed . |
| 25 | Rufus took her £40 off her by the reception desk , having set in train the arrangements by which she would be admitted to a fashionable West End clinic , with Rufus , her surgery and her hospitalization ultimately paid for by some provident association to which she and her husband subscribed . |
| 26 | They were also told that at 10 o'clock next morning she would be put on a plane back to India . |
| 27 | The Galiaras were told that she would be put on a plane at 3.30 pm . |
| 28 | She was damned if she would be put through a third degree by this raving lunatic who seemed to have a fixation about someone called Lotta . |
| 29 | And told to turn up the next morning , waited another four hours , finally a patient who 'd had an operation for a serious gall bladder operation two days before hand was kicked out of his bed and sent home so that she would be put in the bed , given the operation ! |
| 30 | When Clare talked to Tess of their future , and the farm they would have abroad , she could hardly believe that she would be going through the world by his side . |