Example sentences of "she would [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The change does me good , dear , ’ she would explain gently but firmly to anyone who would listen . |
| 2 | Hill expresses the way time has cheated them : his daughter was born while he was remanded in custody , and is now 14 : ‘ She would change dramatically and I did n't feel a change in myself mentally . |
| 3 | She would go downstairs and tell Amelia what had happened to Clive . |
| 4 | That summer her island trip was to Thásos , and I was particularly glad that she would go there as it entails flying to Kaválla , which can be the most desirable flight that a woman can make in Greece . |
| 5 | She would talk loudly and at length and everyone would have to listen to her or they 'd get no food . |
| 6 | There was little doubt that she would marry again and hopefully it would prove a more comfortable arrangement . |
| 7 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 8 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 9 | But of Callanish itself , which Creggan most wanted to know about , she hat refused to speak , saying that the time was not right and she would speak only when it was . |
| 10 | All his food has gone to nourish the lady , and to placate the woman , so that she would stay here and nurse her. , |
| 11 | She would stay there until Marion and her attendants left for the evening meal in the hall , then come out of her corner , stretch to ease the cramp in her legs , and check the baby again before slipping away out . |
| 12 | Then she thought that she would not go at all , that she would stay behind and pretend to be ill . |
| 13 | To that she would reply simply that it was what ‘ I ought to do . ’ |
| 14 | She would eat fast if she felt like it . |
| 15 | I did n't see her often , but whenever we met she would complain gently that they never went anywhere because Derek was always so busy or the babbas were teething or undergoing the whooping cough . |
| 16 | Eva was convinced she would get well if she was sensible but she had no intention of spending the rest of her life wrapped in cotton wool . |
| 17 | So it was that every time I went to see her , she would run forward and stand , head on one side , looking like a little robin , waiting for her kiss . |
| 18 | After perhaps a quarter of an hour she would rise again and return to her books , as though satisfied that all was in its place . |
| 19 | perhaps , yes , most certainly , she would live here if she could afford to do so . … |
| 20 | She did not know if it would reach Beatrix , of course , nor whether she would respond even if it did . ’ |
| 21 | Ivy , who did not much care for books about ‘ Abroad ’ — though if you sent her one she would say politely that it would be ‘ a companion ’ — was pleased to have a novel set in England and in the past . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't you have a lovely house ! ’ she would say wistfully and Annabel Hogan would smile , pleased , and congratulate herself on having brought these two together . |
| 23 | Of course she did n't know anything and even if she did , she would die rather than say , but suppose he guessed she knew something ? |
| 24 | She would die rather than roll her eyes and wriggle and blush . |
| 25 | I was afraid she would die there and then . |
| 26 | She had been weeping , he could see that , but there was no chance that she would cry now because the apartment was filled with Agency staff , four men moving through the small apartment , packing the family 's belongings . |