Example sentences of "she would [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were n't badly off because I do believe they ran a car and she would wear a lovely fox fur when she was out and about in the dale . |
| 2 | More than anything she would love to be Kirsty 's guardian and , in spite of the harsh things Jake had said to her , she knew , if that happened , she would do a good job . |
| 3 | Now she would be sent to a convent of the same order in Dublin where she would do a secretarial course . |
| 4 | Well , she would do a brave thing , for once . |
| 5 | ‘ I should think she would welcome a regular salary instead of her present partnership , which can only yield peanuts at the moment . ’ |
| 6 | Instead of flowers she would carry a satin-covered prayerbook with one deep cream rose . |
| 7 | Butch said that she would favour a dark-complected co-star . |
| 8 | Yes , she would open a new post office account , and not tell Jasper . |
| 9 | ‘ It breaks my back , my neck — ’ And she would give a little laugh , unclasping a heavy bracelet : ‘ It breaks my wrist too . ’ |
| 10 | At one stage her mother had felt she would make a good doctor and did all she could to encourage her to take up medicine . |
| 11 | She would make a good wife , when he decided to settle down . |
| 12 | ‘ Let's have a picnic , ’ she said , telling herself that next week she would make a real effort to work again at the practice of virtue . |
| 13 | On the whole , she decided , being a rat was more chic , but nevertheless she determined to write a long earnest article soon on some subject of profound importance in which she would make a significant contribution to the sum of human awareness . |
| 14 | But safely shut in her new home , fed on taro scraps and berries , she would grow fat ; and one day in the future she would make a tough but tasty roast for a clan gathering . |
| 15 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 16 | She had been intending for days to make a start on clearing out the cloakroom ; now was the moment — she would make a preliminary survey , set aside what should be kept , see if there was anything good enough for Oxfam . |
| 17 | He did not love her , but she would make a remarkable duchess , and the fact that she had inherited more than her share of her papa 's famous shrewdness was a bonus which would assist the Blaines and make their future secure . |
| 18 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 19 | ‘ Miss Cress is a busy woman , I am astonished she would waste a whole afternoon in such a way . |
| 20 | Before she called the police she would bring a hot-water bottle , probably in its knitted jacket , to the victim of a murder . |
| 21 | She knew she would feel a good deal less proud when she told Alice about the penalty clause . |
| 22 | But washing her hair was such torture that she eventually decided that , whatever the expense , she would pay a weekly visit to a hairdresser . |
| 23 | When a girl 's period was due , she would sign a little red book hanging by string in the medicine cupboard , and the under-matron would discreetly place an unwieldy packet of sanitary towels in her underwear drawer . |
| 24 | She should n't run off with any of his old mates or she would get a good hiding when he came home . |
| 25 | It did n't occur to her that she would get a good shot in … fine aim had never been one of her strong points — so when she heard him shout her name behind her , her instinct as ever was to run . |
| 26 | Obviously during the pregnancy she was visiting the doctor so she would get a good check up . |
| 27 | Under Swiss law she would get a long prison sentence . |
| 28 | She would get a little flat of her own , perhaps go and stay with Great-Aunt Alicia at week-ends . |
| 29 | She would have a new dress for Sundays , which next year became an afternoon dress , and the next was worn in the mornings for doing her housework . |
| 30 | She would have a new coat for winter once in about three years , and the same for summer , with a suit for ‘ in between weather , ’ ( spring and autumn ) , so there was only one of these major expenses each year . |