Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that I would do her large-animal work for her … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When I had the woman trussed up like you are , Ingrid , then I would inspect her sex . |
| 3 | I asked my parents if they would allow me to stay the night , saying that Valeria was alone in the house and I would keep her company . |
| 4 | I wrote to Mrs. X to inform her that I would take her case up with Ministers at the Ministry of Defence . |
| 5 | Yes , Dorothea thought , I would enjoy her company , she would take me out of myself , for she has never for one moment lost her grip upon life , her grasp of a situation , her confidence . |
| 6 | But then I would see her shopping in the area . |
| 7 | She would do her share , but as an equal , not a servant . |
| 8 | She would do her job — and do it well right until the very day when she left the company . |
| 9 | If the person was asleep when the drugs were ‘ done ’ she would miss her opportunity and still be in difficulty . |
| 10 | No time to call Newman : she would miss her flight . |
| 11 | She would welcome her friend 's view on the current state of the case . |
| 12 | To watch him then was such a mingled joy of yearning and pity that sometimes , frightened of her waking thoughts but more afraid of the nightmares of sleep , she would carry her night-light into his bedroom and crouch by the cot for an hour or more , her eyes fixed on his sleeping face , her restlessness soothed by his peace . |
| 13 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 14 | He hardly dared hope that she would change her mind and marry him . |
| 15 | The two armies waited while messengers conveyed to Mary the offer of her rebel nobles to support her once more if she would discard her husband 's murderer . |
| 16 | She would confess her deception to the castle priest later , Isabel promised her conscience , and then wondered if , in fact , the chapel might provide the privacy she craved . |
| 17 | The young Palestinian men who had gathered in the room to hear her story sat quietly , knowing that she would finish her grief and that this was a ritual even if it was a deeply felt one . |
| 18 | Her father 's duchy would , by a family convention of 1658 , be transferred to his youngest brother Ernst August , but she would inherit her father 's private fortune . |
| 19 | She came nearer , she would give her life to please him , and this other life was in her gift now . |
| 20 | But first , she would give her father a final chance . |
| 21 | First thing in the morning , she would make her way to the big house where she intended to relay everything she had learned . |
| 22 | After that she would make her way back to her aunt , her mission a failure , because she now knew that in no way would Silas be persuaded to go cap in hand to Bertha . |
| 23 | Once the other two men came downstairs and disappeared , like the constable , into the darkness , she would make her ascent . |
| 24 | Tonight , she would leave her husband and the tall house in the Burrows . |
| 25 | After that she went into service and there she stayed until , when she was about twenty-two years of age , her brother came to tell her he was married and to ask her if she would leave her employer and come to look after his wife who was expecting a baby . |
| 26 | She would await her opportunity , and put the proposition before Jenny . |
| 27 | There were some risks to life and limb , however , over which she had no control ; how could she ever have guessed that she would outlive her son Robert by almost exactly 10 years ? |
| 28 | Brought running from the living room by the yells of the unfortunate wretch , she would subdue her husband with dockers language and a series of smacks across his massive crewcut head . |
| 29 | And even if Robbie decided to remain independent , she would visit her family … knowing that Fen was only a stone 's throw away — with his wife . |
| 30 | She would shake her head and deftly speak of other matters , though never about her father 's past . |