Example sentences of "that she would [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Faced with this pressure Aquino met with supporters in the Senate and with Cabinet officials on Sept. 23 and announced that she would no longer press for a referendum , although she would not prevent others from doing so .
2 And her dislike of the insincere ran so deep that she would rather publicly disclaim all grief for her dead husband than be accused of insincerity .
3 She wanted to say that she would quite happily go and dine on her own in Florence so that they could be alone together , but Mrs Wallington pre-empted her .
4 It did not cross her mind — and would not , for several years — that Peter could not supply a complete companionship and that she would intermittently always yearn for metaphorical chocolate .
5 They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany .
6 He had already consumed more than one bottle of wine on his own , Alyssia managing to sip so slowly through her one glass that she was still stone-cold sober , and fully aware that at this rate her lift home would be out of the question and that she would more likely have to get a taxi .
7 Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman .
8 Lying wakeful in her bedchamber that night , Grainne knew that she would never truly forget Fergus .
9 She was already counting the minutes until she 'd march out the front door of the Palazzo Sabatini , secure in the knowledge that she 'd never again have to see that self-satisfied , patrician face .
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