Example sentences of "and she [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They arranged to go out for a drink on the second evening , although Kathleen was n't really looking forward to it as it was bound to turn into a ‘ What was the name of that blonde with the big chest ? ’ sort of session and she would end up driving them both home and quite likely putting them both to bed ! |
| 2 | Whenever Doris was n't looking , Charlie would play peek-a-boo with her and she would stare at him stonily for a minute and then turn her head pointedly away . |
| 3 | Lady Kitty 's wardrobes were crammed with clothes , and she would give those for which she had no further use to someone with little money — in exchange for some of their coupons , of course . |
| 4 | ‘ It breaks my back , my neck — ’ And she would give a little laugh , unclasping a heavy bracelet : ‘ It breaks my wrist too . ’ |
| 5 | Her mother 's moodswings began to terrify her , and she would slow to a careful frozen walk as she turned into their street . |
| 6 | She knew that Faye had issued the invitation to Tom as a deliberate part of her campaign to bring the two of them together , and somehow she had to summon the courage today … or soon … to tell her patient that it just was n't working , it was pointless , and she would prefer it if Faye gave up the idea . |
| 7 | who was sitting in the audience who is a nurse and er would 've known and she would 've been trying to get in and say this is not true . |
| 8 | He paid regular visits to Cambridge to see Valerie , and she would return to camp from these visits absolutely dying to pour out all her troubles to somebody , and as her bed was right next to mine it was usually me who had the honour . |
| 9 | They affected to despise her , but they did not find their contempt a strain , whereas the other really bad disciplinarian in the school , a Geography mistress , one Miss Riley , inflicted on them an intolerable suffering , for they felt themselves compelled to torment her , and she would sit before them , thin and pretty and anguished , making vain attempts to restore order , miserably transparent in her misery , and unable to conceal the depths of her humiliation — depths which frightened them , but which they could not leave unplumbed . |
| 10 | Once he had Garry back with Berenice he would n't give a thought to the Adams twins and she would forget him and the time she had spent hunting Garry and her sister through the Northumberland countryside . |
| 11 | If she did n't get one , she would invent it and she would embroider whatever she was told . |
| 12 | Another fifteen minutes and she would wake Julie . |
| 13 | Every time she and Angel were alone together he would ask her again , and she would refuse . |
| 14 | And then she would look to Gary for him to begin the piano again , and she would look us straight in the eye for as long as possible , and she would sing : |
| 15 | The telephone call was made , and Margaret , heard amid the distant screams of children quarrelling , gushed that it was a darling-idea and she would telephone the Advent herself , since she knew the women 's editor well . |
| 16 | And she would stay off it for days on end . |
| 17 | ‘ She was actually very good at drawing and she would draw the residents . |
| 18 | Mrs McMahon felt herself incapable of assisting Terry to dress because it had only just burst upon her that it was her daughter getting married and she would leave and never be seen again . |
| 19 | Something would attract her — a cloud , a flower , a fat lady on the street- and she would drift away from the track unthinkingly . |
| 20 | Dexter and she would deliver Urquhart there for his rendezvous at seven o'clock that morning . |
| 21 | Sometimes after school we would visit their house and she would show me all her nice clothes . |
| 22 | He would paint flames ; and she would paint fire in a brazier . |
| 23 | He would throw paint imitating a comet ; and she would paint a part of the milky way . |
| 24 | But Tom and she would go skiing at the end of the month . |
| 25 | She was joining the Navy and she would go wherever they sent her . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’ |
| 27 | The memory of those sensitive hands , the clean square nails , the single white streak in his hair , would fill her mind with agony , and she would go on reading her book without taking in a word , or find herself deaf to the fact that the tape she was playing had long since finished . |
| 28 | One more night here and they would all go back to Paris and she would go home to England . |
| 29 | They were worlds apart and she would go finally , but there was a peculiar happiness inside her , not one drop of hatred left . |
| 30 | And erm , they lived in this little cottage and erm every night erm the moth , she would always stay up really late and the mother and erm her son would go to bed and she would always go out of this erm go out of the house every night and she would go , cos she had these three fingers which were blades |