Example sentences of "she would [verb] [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would give him a ball of string . |
| 2 | One day Hugh came into the bathroom while Myra was washing and offered to give her a present if she would give him a hug and a kiss . |
| 3 | ‘ She would give me a hug and a kiss when I came home from work . ’ |
| 4 | She promised to find something else to sell me , and said that she would give me a ring . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She would send them a card at Christmas , with crosses for kisses on it , though Victoria had already forgotten her and she , too , was already forgetting their precise and real selves . |
| 7 | Normally this was Beth 's favourite time … when her son was lying sleepy in his bed and she would read him a story about creatures and little people ; gentle stories that soon sent him into a peaceful slumber . |
| 8 | She decided she would teach them a lesson . |