Example sentences of "she would [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Boyd said she would choose something with a wide brim in a subtle pastel colour — probably to match an outfit made by her favourite designer , Jacques Reiss . |
| 2 | Sometimes , he knew , she would bruise herself with a rock to get morph-plus out of him . |
| 3 | If this was death then she would stare it in the face . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 6 | She would beat me with a bamboo stick for the slightest misdemeanour , and there were never any treats for either of us . |
| 7 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Art History as a subject was not yet available at Cambridge : she would attach herself to the Courtauld Institute . |
| 12 | She would represent herself as an angel of light and make her kind master and benefactor a devil incarnate . |
| 13 | She would treat him as a delinquent , a time-waster , a bad child , whose offences could only be petty . |
| 14 | If she had let this chance slip , she knew she would regret it for the rest of her life . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She would let herself into the flat and be waiting for Rachaela behind her screen . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 19 | Perhaps she would see someone across the room . |
| 20 | She would discuss it in the morning , and see sense then . |
| 21 | She would ring him in the week . |
| 22 | ‘ She set higher store by emotional security ’ than her sister , ‘ and thought she would find it with a man soft-hearted and caring and pliant , far removed , as she thought , from father 's toughness and uncontrollability . ’ |
| 23 | In another moment she would find herself on the other side of the door , facing disaster . |
| 24 | Now that she knew how despicable Robert Sheldrake was , she would fight him with every method at her disposal . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And she would not go walking with him again and she would not be alone with him if she could help it and she would freeze him with a look when he tried to talk to her . |
| 28 | She would surprise him with a picnic , and packed a wicker basket , pedalling through the streets face aglow with anticipation at his surprise . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |