Example sentences of "she would [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without a murmur she would do as he bid . |
| 2 | Eva , who was more used to giving than receiving orders , determined she would do as he said . |
| 3 | Kate knew she would do as he suggested . |
| 4 | As she got into her car , she pushed away the worrying question of what she would do if she found evidence that implicated Veronica in the murder of Hugh Puddephat . |
| 5 | His voice was pure seduction , drawing her deeper and deeper into the spell of passion , and she shook her head with a desperation born of fear — fear not of him but of what she would do if he continued this heady , drugging assault on her senses . |
| 6 | As they began to climb the stairs , arms still wrapped around each other , Ronni asked herself for the hundredth time what she would do if he did . |
| 7 | What she would do if he tried to take her to bed . |
| 8 | She 'd be very antagonistic when I was putting the jesses on , so the first thing she would do when I picked her up was pull at her feet and try to work herself loose . |
| 9 | She thought that the first thing she would do when she earned some money would be to buy a house or a caravan like they had in Turpin 's Field , so that whatever happened they could all be together , safe for ever and ever . |
| 10 | A fantasy , but a lovely one , and one that she would miss when she went back home . |
| 11 | Several of his perfumes seemed promising and in the end she took away samples in three small bottles and promised that she would return when she had tried them out . |
| 12 | I imagined you let her go away with Steve because you … you thought she would finally get him out of her system , and you did say that you were certain she would return as you had something precious that Steve had n't got . |
| 13 | Fernando had said he was confident she would return because he had something precious that Steve had n't : was it a serious bank balance ? |
| 14 | Mrs Singh said she would go if I came too but not otherwise . |
| 15 | Dorothea remembered little more , though sometimes she would pretend that she did . |
| 16 | He did not answer but just before she heard his bedroom door close she would swear that she heard a small chortle of laughter — as if her dry afterthought of a good morning had amused him . |
| 17 | If she ever bothered to read the so-called ‘ forged ’ New Testament then she would realise that it states very clearly that Christ was a direct descendant of the Jewish King David . |
| 18 | But at this thought rage grasped her and shook her with red-hot hands , so that her eyes went dark and she found herself walking fast up the road , and then along another , and another , walking as though she would explode if she stopped . |
| 19 | She would scream if anyone came near her left arm , and she cried at night , begging for painkillers . |
| 20 | Susan wondered how she would feel if he did ; or if she touched him or let him know in some other way that she was there ? |
| 21 | She wondered how she would feel when she saw him again . |
| 22 | ‘ I said I wondered how she would feel when she knows her own sister is having a relationship with the man who left her … |
| 23 | As for that other one , which was how he now alluded to the daughter he had always doted on , she was in her room and there she would stay until she saw sense . |
| 24 | Dalgliesh wondered what she would reply if he had said : ‘ I knew your son . |
| 25 | Maybe she would think that he wanted them . |
| 26 | Her last thought before she fell asleep was the reaction she would get if they knew that she had been out with a policeman . |
| 27 | Not sure of the reception she would get if she spoke to the other girl , not sure what her mother or Feargal might have told her , she was about to duck back into her room when Terry turned . |
| 28 | He said she would have if I had n't pull her fucking hand brake up . |
| 29 | We should ring her on our return and she would see whether she felt able to perform . |
| 30 | And when the all clear sounded , even though the realization that she had survived yet another night sent relief singing through her , there was the agony of wondering what she would find when she returned to Lyra Street . |