Example sentences of "[verb] her [pron] would [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bob and I told her we would help her all we could , I do n't think any of us realised what was in store , though ! ’ |
| 2 | The landlady told her he would drive them all round the twist , he was born to chase a bob without success , and he left queer books lying around . |
| 3 | David had told her they would pick her up in the minibus to save her driving her car all the way to the woods . |
| 4 | He was working hard to complete a special project for Friday , and had already told her he would give her a hand at the weekend . |
| 5 | He seemed to have meant it when he had told her he would leave her on her own until she was in a more reasonable frame of mind . |
| 6 | He listened , and his heart ached because he knew if he failed her she would hold it against him for ever . |
| 7 | Whenever he saw her he would ask her to explain the Bible to him , and in the drawing he made of her , he wrote the Hebrew version of her name , Chana , daughter of Rafael , in Hebrew characters across the top of the head . |
| 8 | While Sien sat to him , a pathetic drooping invalid who wanted to please him , who actually asked him to tell her what would please him , he probed her , observed her , dissected her painlessly , as the masters of literature had done with women , subtly and beautifully revealing their characters . |