Example sentences of "she [vb past] it would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 2 | With her long sight she saw the size of the fire , and — well , she realised it would need at least five fire-engines . |
| 3 | But she doubted it would go any further — well , could n't go any further as she was only staying the one night . |
| 4 | She estimated it would take her 11 years to pay off the debt . |
| 5 | So if someone is mugged , raped , or injured , it is because he or she believed it would happen . |
| 6 | She believed it would have been the suitable punishment for killing Mrs MacAllister as the two walked together in a remote forest in March last year . |
| 7 | And she would provide a substitute for the two weeks she reckoned it would take her , an English maid called Phoebe Crabbe with whom she had become friendly . |
| 8 | Zena Murray had seen on television that beauty queens used the trick so she figured it would work for her . |
| 9 | She decided it would do no harm to tell him . |
| 10 | Indeed , although she is now nearly ninety , one senses that Lady Amory would do almost anything in her power if she thought it would benefit Knightshayes , the garden she created with her husband , Sir John Heathcoat Amory , after the Second World War . |
| 11 | She thought it would do you good to be taught belief . ’ |
| 12 | For ten years , Anne who ran a G P practice from her home at Wallasey , tried to obstruct her daughter taking cannabis because she thought it would do her harm . |
| 13 | She thought it would come right when they were married . |
| 14 | Arabel was once quoted as being terrified by a performance of Tchaikovsky 's Pathétique Symphony in Berlin so intense that she thought it would kill you . |
| 15 | They went into the boutique , Alyssia barely glancing at the racks of exquisitely made clothes , nodding distractedly in agreement when Nicole picked out an exotic pink strapless dress and asked whether she thought it would suit her . |
| 16 | It was boring , and sad , but she knew it would end |
| 17 | She knew it would give a nasty sting , but it would n't cut her flesh to ribbons . |
| 18 | Because , of course , it was Liz 's old home as well , and she knew it would mean so much to her cousin to be able to bring up her children in such peaceful surroundings . |
| 19 | Paul had been a real find so far , and she knew it would do his professional standing a lot of good if he could design the whole hotel complex . |
| 20 | Sally was stunned and kept repeating over and over again , ‘ She did n't want to go out — she knew it would happen ’ . |
| 21 | She wanted to know who as well , but he refused her and she knew it would become part of his bargain with the police when and if he were caught . |
| 22 | There was n't a spare bed , for a start — but the main thing was that she knew it would annoy Alan . |
| 23 | She knew it would keep him away from home even more than usual , and wondered what Elaine thought about that . |
| 24 | That 's probably why she sent him — she knew it would cut him to the quick . |
| 25 | She knew it would wound his dignity that he had been forced to skulk abroad while she had saved the firm — never mind that she had done so in the most unbusinesslike and outrageous manner . |
| 26 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 27 | But she knew it would take a while before the immeasurable hunger receded within her . |
| 28 | She knew it would take courage to ring that number . |
| 29 | ‘ It — er — was a nice walk , ’ she felt it would do no harm to comment . |
| 30 | Dora traced an abstract pattern with her finger on the table-cloth , as if she felt it would help the process of recall . |