Example sentences of "she would [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd pull them off the stalks . |
| 2 | And all that , or at Betty 's or , what have you , I do n't think she 'd leave them with the mother-in-law |
| 3 | And then she 'd type them on this special machine that had indelible ink in it . |
| 4 | She 'd phone them at the very first opportunity , knowing how they would have worried . |
| 5 | She would bribe them with love : " Just a handful , a small handful , Fagan , " she pleaded . |
| 6 | She would hide them beneath her underwear until she could figure out a better place . |
| 7 | She would visit them at home at times , and have them spend an evening with her , with or without boy-friends . |
| 8 | She would urge them to either aim to become local councillors and get involved in important decision-making , or lobby the authorities to take more steps to protect the environment by providing more things like facilities for recycling household refuse . |
| 9 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 10 | She would occasionally reward Thatcherite newspapers , such as the Express , with a gracious , unrevealing interview ; on television , Sir Robin Day and Brian Walden would flatter her by pretending to be tough , and she would flatter them by pretending they were . |
| 11 | But she would have those things for ever ; she would have them in her head , in her memories and her dreams , and no one could take that away from her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She would need them over the weekend , God willing . |
| 14 | Sometimes she would use them on a Sunday morning and I would say : ‘ Well , you ca n't have talked to that many people in Beccles since last night . ’ |