Example sentences of "i [vb past] she would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably too weak ; and , even if she was n't , I expected she would just let me crack my skull on the pavement because women like to see men helpless . |
| 2 | To make life easier for us all I started to teach her a few commands , but I found she would obey any order before it was given . |
| 3 | I was worried , of course , but I assumed she 'd explain herself when she came back . |
| 4 | The staff left Ingard House at five.thirty , and I reckoned she would be home soon after six . |
| 5 | I 'd be anchored where I reckoned she 'd get a little shelter from the bay in which she lay , but with a gentle south-westerly and no sign of any break in the weather , I was n't worried about her , and took the easiest line ashore . |
| 6 | and all of a sudden I developed she 'd be on the phone going , I 've just eaten mussels with vinegar in them . |
| 7 | If she had seen the man I loved she would have thought him a figure of fantasy too . |
| 8 | ‘ I know it sounds awful but I felt she would criticise what I did and how I looked or try to organise me . |
| 9 | I felt I could ask questions , I felt she would n't mind . |
| 10 | And I … well , for all that happened , I felt she would be safest there . ’ |
| 11 | I felt she would be at home in an arena with starving lions . |
| 12 | Unconsciously she put a note of hope into those half-scandalized questionings , because she knew I knew she would never be happy if I married . |
| 13 | Even though I knew she would soon be in England , I also knew that she was n't going to live with us but with my cousins in Nottingham , and I guess I was sad about that . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's poisoned you against me , I knew she would . ’ |
| 15 | No , I knew she would n't do such a thing . |
| 16 | At one time I would buy a bottle of whiskey and pour it all over me before going home because I knew she would n't try to argue if she thought I was drunk . |
| 17 | I knew she would go on . |
| 18 | ‘ I told her where the door was , because I knew she would keep the secret . ’ |
| 19 | She had no travellers ' tales , no air of a person who had been on a journey , and I knew she would be both disbelieving and resentful if I should try to describe the eternal vistas I had glimpsed . |
| 20 | It was too bad of me , I knew she would do the decent thing if I put it like that . |
| 21 | I waited for her to bring up the subject of Graham 's murder because I knew she would have been very upset . |
| 22 | She merely snorted , as I knew she would , and stared moodily at the blank of the comm . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's quite a cricketing fan herself , so I knew she would n't mind . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I knew she would . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Why lucky ? ’ she asked , as I knew she would . |
| 26 | I knew she would n't be asleep after what you 've been putting her through . ’ |
| 27 | I knew she would n't go . |
| 28 | Oh , only the ones I knew she would n't have . |
| 29 | I knew she would be . |
| 30 | Cos I knew she would n't come near me . |