Example sentences of "she would [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just ge go anywhere sh I 'm sure she 'd entertain herself at the shops , she 'd be quite happy |
| 2 | He 's an Italian , fond of the opera , and for the woman 's part , she 'd make herself so blatantly available to him … |
| 3 | She 'd twist and turn , she 'd fold herself double , she 'd cry out . |
| 4 | I was worried , of course , but I assumed she 'd explain herself when she came back . |
| 5 | It was the unflagging encouragement and support of her parents Rosemarie and Bob ( above left ) that inspired Fiona to complete the difficult challenge she 'd set herself which included planning and leading a camping study group and carrying out painstaking historical research . |
| 6 | Diane scored five hits out of twenty , which was the limit that she 'd set herself because of the cost of the cartridges . |
| 7 | Donna was n't sure whether it was perspiration or if she 'd wet herself in the hectic chase . |
| 8 | She 'd give herself one last treat and then go home and phone . |
| 9 | Just a few more minutes of this blissful heat toasting her limbs , then she 'd rouse herself and return to the house . |
| 10 | She was thinking of houseboys in a saffron uniform she 'd design herself . |
| 11 | Hayley 's real father had turned up , demanding to take her home with him , and there were tears and tantrums from Hayley , who declared , as she frequently did , that she 'd throw herself out of the window . |
| 12 | Said she 'd kill herself first . |
| 13 | When there were grand-children , she 'd reconcile herself completely . |
| 14 | And she 'd scrub herself the hands with that you know and of course my mam used to do all the baking did n't she . |
| 15 | If somebody had told her she 'd find herself in this same dubious position all over again , even one hour ago , she would have laughed right in their face . |
| 16 | I did n't know where she 'd put herself finally on her often-revised allocation of sleeping space , but wherever she was , it was behind a closed door . |
| 17 | She 'd put herself in Bridget 's hands . |
| 18 | It had been a silly , spur-of-the-moment impulse to deny it , but by lying to him she 'd put herself in an invidious position . |
| 19 | About twice a day , she 'd ask herself whether this move had been right for him . |
| 20 | She 'd dry herself and change in the bathroom . |
| 21 | Later , she 'd unpack , later she 'd explore Marigot Bay , later she 'd organise herself some supper , later she 'd start feeling excited , privileged , ecstatically lucky to be here … later she 'd do all kinds of things , but right now ten solid hours of travelling , the latter part in that bone-shaker of a van , had left her utterly spent . |
| 22 | She wore brown sandals , and tried to arrange the cross-gartering over two scabs where she 'd cut herself shaving . |
| 23 | One spring-driven second later she 'd cut herself free , and two seconds after that she was showing her heels at the side door . |
| 24 | It was a shock realizing she knew almost nothing of Midnight ; all the worse because she 'd let herself begin to depend on him . |
| 25 | She 'd let herself go , last night — but she was none the worse for it , was she ? |
| 26 | But so many people all her life had told her how wrong it was to hurt others , so Jezrael penned inside her the rage that crushed its poison outwards through the walls of her veins , not knowing the harm she would do herself , knowing only that if she killed Zulei she would be as bad as Zulei was . |
| 27 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 28 | Sometimes , he knew , she would bruise herself with a rock to get morph-plus out of him . |
| 29 | In a year 's time or less she would land herself a good job , and a place to live . |
| 30 | She was deciding that she would go herself and have a secret talk with Matilda 's mother and father as soon as possible . |