Example sentences of "she would make a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Quite often she 'd make a grab , I 'd move with her and there would be a tug'o'war , ending up with the food breaking or her giving up .
2 She decided that she would make a phone call just to check that Jenny had left home and knew the right time of her arrival .
3 And if it came to court she would make a plea that he be given the care of his daughter until she became of age .
4 She would make a dash for it and be in the garden before anyone had a chance to walk in on her and take her by surprise .
5 I feel she would make a nurse .
6 If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector .
7 They decided on the following Friday for the party and Lee said that she would make a chicken and pasta and fruit and nut salad and make borscht and buy black bread and invite Philippa and Conrad if Larry would buy cheese and wine and serviettes and invite two friends of his own .
8 One day she would make a fortune selling it everywhere .
9 A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child .
10 But before that she would make a cup of tea and read for a bit .
11 Her husband was a friend of the Collector , she would make a complaint
12 She would make a bust of him .
13 Even after they moved , and that 's ten years ago now , she would make a point of coming up for the children 's party , at Christmas . ’
14 She would n't waste her enforced imprisonment in Castle Perilous , she would make a start on her lines !
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