Example sentences of "she would [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If this was death then she would stare it in the face .
2 And hearing him Minch was pleased , for she saw that he was learning to understand others and would be ready for the harder lessons she would give him in the coming year .
3 Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours .
4 I said that if she would leave it with the bill at her hall-porter 's desk , she could trust me to take it and leave the money without attempting to see her .
5 She slipped under the bedclothes and switched on the reading lamp , adamant that she would shove him to the furthest corner of her mind , but the minute she opened her book her brain started working again , throwing up images of him , the way he smiled , that confident knowing look in his eyes when he addressed her .
6 Oi asked Miki from Lush if she would tell me about the birds and the bees but instead she twatted me with a flange pedal .
7 If she had let this chance slip , she knew she would regret it for the rest of her life .
8 On my last full day in her house , Mrs Knelle declared that she would drive me through the mountains of Joyce 's Country to the edge of Connemara .
9 Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education .
10 One day soon she would see him for the last time .
11 She would discuss it in the morning , and see sense then .
12 She would ring him in the week .
13 She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity .
14 She trotted beside Miss Honey with wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds and her words went off like fireworks , with terrific speed .
15 The villagers often joked that if she met a German tank on the road to Berkeley , she would order it off the road and pass on as if nothing had happened .
16 So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor .
17 She would need them over the weekend , God willing .
18 As for killing Havvie , I did not think that she would thank me for the scandal , ’ he finished simply .
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