Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] she would " in BNC.

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1 Julie decided to top up her Californian suntan until Kitty Summerville called lunch , after which she would take a casual stroll to another of her favourite haunts as a child , the old summer house on the river bank .
2 Molly felt similarly safe , brought to this strange place about which she would have clearly so much to learn .
3 It was , I felt sure , something about which she would have something to say .
4 There were wall-sized French windows through which she would in daylight have been able to see the back garden .
5 She had thought of that first male kiss as opening a door inside her , through which she would step towards adulthood , real sex .
6 She had taken him out into the garden to show him various easy spring tasks that must be done , and for which she would pay him , and he had refused .
7 A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul .
8 Christine produced a new order form for the Lent Studies booklet and fliers for the Preparation Day on 30th January to be held in Dunblane Cathedral Hall , for which she would arrange tea , coffee , and a bookstall where it was hoped to have copies of the books mentioned as background reading for the Lent study .
9 The journey and the sport would usefully consume at least three weeks , during all of which she would be beyond the regular or predictable reach of the mails .
10 Gave her the facts to make of what she would ; and make of them what she could , Jay did not understand .
11 The Protestants could hope but by no means be certain of what she would do , though they could take comfort from her dramatic gesture on Christmas Day 1558 , when she ordered the bishop celebrating Mass in her chapel not to elevate the host , walking out when he refused , and her even more spectacular gesture on 25 January 1559 when , at the opening of parliament , she told the abbot and monks of Westminster , processing with tapers burning , ‘ Away with these torches !
12 She had an exact estimation of herself ; she knew what she could accomplish now , and was certain of what she would be capable later .
13 She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said .
14 He moved cautiously now , unused to the preludes , unsure of what she would expect .
15 She decided to remain where she was until she could be sure of what she would find outside the closed front door .
16 Robyn clutched the receiver and found she did n't have the first idea of what she would say when he answered it .
17 Jabbing violently forward , with no thought whatsoever of what she would do if she actually hit him , she did n't even notice where he was retreating until it was too late .
18 As she got into her car , she pushed away the worrying question of what she would do if she found evidence that implicated Veronica in the murder of Hugh Puddephat .
19 His voice was pure seduction , drawing her deeper and deeper into the spell of passion , and she shook her head with a desperation born of fear — fear not of him but of what she would do if he continued this heady , drugging assault on her senses .
20 Or , of course , if she is muzzled , she may have been killed by other predators against which she would have had no defence .
21 She walked over to her door , practising the sentences with which she would wake Rachel .
22 In a way she hoped he had not and yet , on the other hand , she believed the news would have made his final days very happy , however heinous the deceit with which she would always have to live .
23 Now she was inserting the throat and ear plugs with which she would hear and communicate and breathe .
24 Over it , for dramatic effect , an old school blazer into which she would sew shoulder pads to make the silhouette wider .
25 No need for a hat , but the hair must be pulled off the face to minimise distraction and caught at the nape in a black band into which she would stick a single green feather .
26 Still , in this poem she is examining a condition into which she would enter by seeking patrons for her verse .
27 She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother .
28 The therapist encouraged Pamela to make a list of ways in which she would like her parents to change in terms of providing her with greater freedom .
29 However , she had encountered difficulties in drawing up a list of ways in which she would like her parents to be more tolerant .
30 There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering .
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