Example sentences of "she would only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the moment my boat was staying on Straker 's Cay , and she would only pass into the senator 's care if I agreed to extend the trial two weeks , cruise-cure into a full summer 's excursion . |
| 2 | If she were to try , she would only end up gabbling something silly , for the heat of his lips against her fingers had sent her brain into a kind of mental tailspin . |
| 3 | But , when she suddenly discovered an urgent desire to know his name , she knew that she would only end up feeling foolish if she asked him what it was in this moment of parting . |
| 4 | Mary herself was quite keen , stipulating though that she would only stay if Rufus did not . |
| 5 | Physically , she was still capable of walking , but she would only walk with her physiotherapist , never with the nurses or her husband . |
| 6 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 7 | If she would only realise that she would have confided in me now . ’ |
| 8 | In any case , she would only laugh and not believe a word of it . |
| 9 | And when he held out his arms to her she stepped forward into his embrace , knowing full well she would only attract more interested looks if she refused . |
| 10 | Through an entryphone system at the front door , she would only say : ‘ Thank you for calling — I really have nothing more to say . ’ |
| 11 | She would only say : ‘ I do not wish to say anything about anything . ’ |
| 12 | She would only say what she has said already . ’ |
| 13 | There was no point in calling Mrs Browning 's attention to the deeper implications of her statement — she would only take it ill . |
| 14 | She would only take her own daughter home . |
| 15 | He thought for a moment that if she would only accept his feelings for Carrie he would go to her this minute and put his arms about her and comfort her , but he knew she would never accept Carrie . |
| 16 | And if she would only let me have Annie round ’ — his thumb was wagging again — ‘ the place would be spotless . ’ |
| 17 | In the end she would only find her fascinating and feel no pity for her at all . |
| 18 | She would only wonder why he wanted Dougal . |
| 19 | She would only bewilder him quite as much as she would distress him . |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't bear to think of the future , of what would happen to her when we got old , if we got ill , when we died , or worse — whether she would only live a few years , ’ she says . |
| 21 | She would only read them if they were Green : written on re-cycled paper . |
| 22 | The trouble was that she would never say , she would only look away and murmur vaguely , ‘ You decide … ’ |
| 23 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 24 | She would only have to sit still and clever stage lighting would make it appear as though she were naked . |
| 25 | He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes . |
| 26 | Had she gone the long way round , using a main road , she would only have added 10 minutes to her journey . |
| 27 | She would only have one shot , and she had to be ready to make it count . |
| 28 | ‘ She would only have grown more confused . |
| 29 | Now if she re-dialled she would only get the apartment ringing incessantly ; the call before she had lost and she had n't a clue where its destination was . |
| 30 | If she ran away she would only cause worry to her parents , and anyway , where could she run to , on this island ? |