Example sentences of "she would [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 2 | She would leave at the first opportunity , and never again would she listen to the reckless promptings of her heart . |
| 3 | In the hall she would put on her hat and , lulling all suspicions of decay and its mortifications to rest in the conviction of her own economical and resourceful genius , with Gigi on her shoulder , she would stand at the head of the basement staircase screaming ( Gigi would scream too ) for Silly-Willie and Brigid to come and take her instructions and give their assistance while she created some nauseating delicacy for Dada 's dinner . |
| 4 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
| 8 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 9 | She would sit at the piano and sing . |
| 10 | " So are you keeping up your prayers to St Anthony ? " she would ask at the end of each interview , to which Sara would dutifully reply , " Yes , mother-in-law , " while knowing that she was not . |
| 11 | And on Monday mornings , she would look at the little bridge on her willow pattern plate and wish she could run across it away from her Uncle Philip 's house to where the flowering trees were . |
| 12 | She would look at the rest later . |
| 13 | The Baronne de Rochefort presented her compliments to Mademoiselle Russell , and would be obliged if she would call at the château at three o'clock that afternoon . |
| 14 | If left sitting on a chair she would pick at the cloth cover until she made a little hole and then would pull out the threads and small pieces of the inside padding to eat . |
| 15 | She would rage at the boys ; they largely ignored her . |