Example sentences of "she would [verb] me " in BNC.

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1 Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time .
2 From the start , she made it clear that as long as I could be of use to Jean-Claude she would tolerate me , but that my relationship with her son was in her gift and subject to her approval , and this might not always be forthcoming .
3 Sometimes after school we would visit their house and she would show me all her nice clothes .
4 ‘ No ; but the woman said she would show me some pretty dresses , new ones , not — ’ She looked downwards now before she said , ‘ Smelly stuff off the cart . ’
5 Bernice said she would show me Billy 's room and leave me to it while she made lunch and did I fancy a drink ?
6 I did n't mind this ; I was happy just to be there , hoping that one day she would give me some of the pretty wool to make something for myself but she never did .
7 She would give me a hug and a kiss when I came home from work . ’
8 She promised to find something else to sell me , and said that she would give me a ring .
9 He was great , a handful , but I liked him , and anyway Clare said she would give me lessons to help me cope with him .
10 She would beat me with a bamboo stick for the slightest misdemeanour , and there were never any treats for either of us .
11 She would beat me , push me as I was going downstairs , and do anything she could to try and harm me and my baby .
12 She would strike me dead if I dared …
13 Not that she would want me to keep it now it 's gone this far .
14 I will continue with the phototherapy work , as I believe she would want me to .
15 Then she would bring me the diaries of a grand-duchess and the poems of the Hapsburg princesses .
16 She would pay me 10 per cent commission for everything I sold .
17 In the days to come she would tell me the story , she would teach me many things .
18 Oi asked Miki from Lush if she would tell me about the birds and the bees but instead she twatted me with a flange pedal .
19 Sometimes Bessie would come up to me in my lonely bedroom , bringing a piece of cake , sometimes she would tell me a story , and sometimes she would kiss me good night .
20 Even if I tried it on I thought she would stop me .
21 She was a kind woman and whenever I called with a message she would sit me down and fetch me a biscuit or a glass of milk .
22 But at last I learned to know what a lie was : to induce my mother to stop beating me I would lie — I would say , yes , I had lied and was sorry , and then she would whip me for having withheld the admission so long .
23 Sometimes she would compare me unfavourably with her ideal daughter-in-law : ‘ So-and-so asks her husband 's mother for recipes . ’
24 On my last full day in her house , Mrs Knelle declared that she would drive me through the mountains of Joyce 's Country to the edge of Connemara .
25 ‘ Not that she would have me in any event . ’
26 she would have me got cash out or dropped
27 I often think how she would despise me when I am driven by curiosities to ask the children what they had for lunch when they were invited out .
28 Even before we 'd exchanged a word , I knew that she would let me do anything I wanted to her .
29 What she told me about vegetable growing meant very little to me , so I can barely recall now what was said , except that she would let me have some strawberries on Monday for my brother 's supper , but I remember how easily the talk went , my unexpected visit serenely taken for granted , with no query as to why I had come .
30 She would let me brush her hair some days .
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