Example sentences of "would [verb] her [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see it 's , it 's quite short actually , and I do n't , I mean , she was n't that small , because you can tell by the , the rest of the , the size of the bodice and the length of the arms that she was n't as small as this dress would make her out to be . |
| 2 | What , Mo asked , would tempt her back to the polling booths ? |
| 3 | If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river . |
| 4 | A good night 's sleep would see her back to normal — sensible and rational , and perfectly capable of ignoring such ridiculous flights of fancy . |
| 5 | It would be late at night , she would have her back to the door and , when brushing her teeth , Elinor went into a kind of trance . |
| 6 | The effect of all this uncertainty and waiting was that through listening to her mother and Maria Candida , Sara began to convince herself that she already knew and loved her future husband and the country he would take her back to . |
| 7 | From there a brisk fifteen-minute walk would take her back to her hotel . |
| 8 | Roland half wished that she was , that a merchant banker would take her out to dinner , or a shady solicitor to the Playboy Club . |
| 9 | Molly had the same feeling of doom she remembered when her father wrote to say he 'd be coming down to see her at school and would take her out to tea , so she could meet a ‘ new friend ’ . |
| 10 | If Alice were not otherwise occupied , he would take her out to dinner somewhere . |
| 11 | And he would guide her back to her room , cajoling , murmuring reassurance , trying to pretend that he was n't frightened , frightened that she would start to cry for her mother , that Miss Willard would appear , censorious and whining , complaining that she had to get her sleep , that the precarious little house . |
| 12 | She thought the spiral staircase would lead her down to the party . |
| 13 | When de Raimes had exacted his revenge he would hand her over to his knight , who would complete her destruction . |