Example sentences of "[prep] her would " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biographies were terse and restrained , as far as his private life was concerned , and effusive only about the names and quality of his publications She thought that she might ring Peter de Salis , and ask him about Mrs Denham , but she did not want to do this , in case Mrs Denham was a lady of such fame that ignorance of her would prove to be positively compromising . |
| 2 | He had only to close his eyes and the image of her would come to him , taking his breath . |
| 3 | And if he knew of the wanton pictures chasing one another through her head his insulting opinion of her would no doubt be confirmed . |
| 4 | How dared he ? she mourned as she sank down on her bed and gasped for breath , and knew then that Naylor Massingham 's low opinion of her would n't hurt anywhere near as much as it did , had she not just realised that she was desperately in love with him ! |
| 5 | One tiny little fragment of her would always be a mother . |
| 6 | The reason why I did n't get much of a word in edgeways was because my lady chairman on the other side of her would n't let kept attracting her attention , so I erm there is to a lot extent a false image . |
| 7 | She began inching towards him , hugging the face of the cliff , praying that the rock beneath her would hold . |
| 8 | Only someone like her would be able to receive it and only a figure like that could understand the pain of it and yet also discern , beneath the scum of the surface , the beauties and longings which eddied in a clearer or cleaner current within him . |
| 9 | He had believed that a country girl like her would find him wonderful , a college man with great ambitions . |
| 10 | Before the days of radio , boats like her would race down-channel as far as the Lizard to get first contact for the ship-to-shore trade from vessels making port . |
| 11 | ‘ The gentleman who 'd been in with her would naturally have gone back to his room well before people started stirring . ’ |
| 12 | After all , conversation with her would be limited and he could hardly hope to find out if her injury was real or not , short of tearing the bandage from her leg . |
| 13 | Nor did it mean that Germany and the countries associated with her would be let in until they had purged their crimes . |
| 14 | Inside the sitting-room he spun round on her , standing across the room as if any contact with her would be an unpleasant episode in his life . |
| 15 | And it would be a case of him taking her sightseeing if he went with her would n't it ? |
| 16 | no gently with her would you ? |
| 17 | He probably thought that Christmas day , even if he was n't with her would be a godsend |
| 18 | You 'd get off with her would n't ya ? |
| 19 | You 'd go with her would n't ya ? |
| 20 | The sounds that followed from her would have qualified her to audition for Mr Dickens 's Infant Phenomenon . |
| 21 | Those countries that could not ‘ keep up ’ with Germany or which were on a different economic cycle from her would suffer badly in terms of their standards of living . |
| 22 | He would persuade her that he loved her , ask her to promise to run away with him if her father refused his consent to their marriage , and , when he finally asked her father for her hand , threaten him with the prospect of his daughter 's elopement — he and Jared Tunstall both knew how self-willed his daughter was , and that any threat from her would not be idle . |
| 23 | Comparable psuedo-allegorizing may be found in , for example , Constant du Hamel , where Constant 's wife extorts from her would be seducers a sachet ( cf. bourse " purse " — " scrotum " ) , a corroie ( " belt " , " money-pouch " , therefore parallel to bourse ) and an anel ( " ring " — " anus " , " labia " and ? " foreskin " ) , or in Les trois Dames qui troverent l'anel , " The three women who found the " ring " " , which has an obvious basic parallel in Les trois Dames qui troverent un vit . |
| 24 | Any member of stab who went into the Biology Lab before her would have needed a good excuse to explain his presence there , unless , of course , he was a member of the Biology Department . |
| 25 | he 'd have been before her would n't he ? |
| 26 | The things he could tell you about her would make your hair curl . |
| 27 | She had known that his love for her would remain , and ‘ for her to have acted on that knowledge ’ in resorting to the deception ‘ made her deed unforgivable ’ . |
| 28 | A victory for her would be regarded as a particularly bitter blow for Mr Chirac , who has been campaigning in support of her rival . |
| 29 | To wait for her would be like walking backwards . |
| 30 | My cousin probably shares with me only one-sixteenth of my genes , so that to sacrifice myself for her would be an activity of less fitness than sacrificing for my sister . |