Example sentences of "she would [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sometimes , he knew , she would bruise herself with a rock to get morph-plus out of him . |
| 4 | In a year 's time or less she would land herself a good job , and a place to live . |
| 5 | She was deciding that she would go herself and have a secret talk with Matilda 's mother and father as soon as possible . |
| 6 | If it was necessary to go to France she would go herself . |
| 7 | She would prepare herself for him . |
| 8 | Two days — she would give herself that long to see him again . |
| 9 | She would make herself a pot of tea , put the confusion to the back of her mind . |
| 10 | Slowly , she rose and pushed the kettle on to the flames , she would make herself a cup of hot sweet tea and then she would go to bed . |
| 11 | Diana immediately told Charles that she would make herself scarce so while he continued fishing she hid behind a tree for half an hour hoping vainly that the journalists would go away . |
| 12 | To tell him the truth would be to reveal her inner self , she would leave herself exposed and vulnerable and — |
| 13 | It was probably her most annoying characteristic that in a room full of beauties she would comport herself as one with a right to be there , and there was nothing in the world that anyone could do to disabuse her . |
| 14 | It got to the stage where she would lock herself away and not talk to me , or else have endless arguments . |
| 15 | She would wash herself , hurriedly , and then sit in the cave , looking out across the valley , hoping that time would shift itself on soon and resolve the tangles which seemed to bind her . |
| 16 | But perhaps her main reason for staying put was that , if she accepted what was plainly a generous offer , she would feel herself placed under some kind of an obligation and put morally in his debt . |
| 17 | Soon the smoke began to leak through her clothes until the ensuing fog convinced me as always that she would set herself alight . |
| 18 | So she would tell herself when she was sick and retching and dizzy , in a week or two , as she 'd been with Liam . |
| 19 | Sometimes , at the end of a busy day , she would tell herself that she was handling the situation well . |
| 20 | Art History as a subject was not yet available at Cambridge : she would attach herself to the Courtauld Institute . |
| 21 | She would represent herself as an angel of light and make her kind master and benefactor a devil incarnate . |
| 22 | She emphasised that she did not want to get better ; that there was no reason or motive for her to get better ; that she wished to remain in control ; that she would cure herself when she decided that it was right to do so . |
| 23 | She emphasised that she did not want to get better ; that there was no reason or motive for her to get better ; that she wished to remain in control ; that she would cure herself when she decided that it was right to do so . |
| 24 | She would bite herself , bite anybody , and tear her clothes off . |
| 25 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 26 | She would electrocute herself . |
| 27 | In an effort to distract him , Sister Cooney had encouraged Doctor Staples to draw up a new and exacting regimen of exercises for him which she would supervise herself . |
| 28 | Then , at about eleven , she would pour herself a drink and turn out the lights and sit and think . |
| 29 | He said this , not because he thought it was likely she would tire herself , but because he was aware of a certain lack of sympathy in his own nature and tried , conscientiously , to redress it by saying the things other people said . |
| 30 | It had been touch and go whether she would get herself anywhere near , let alone actually on , the bench . |