Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] would [verb] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd think I 'd cut her foot off . |
| 2 | How alarmed you must have been to discover she was receiving secret messages from some mysterious adviser , who also promised he would arrange her escape from Godstowe ! |
| 3 | It would also be better from the point of view of traffic — she had n't yet looked up Hallborough on a map , but she guessed she would need her car to get to it . |
| 4 | Creggan was startled by this and wondered if in some way she understood that he had made a vow that if ever the chance came for them to escape he would place her freedom before his own . |
| 5 | Rain wanted to say she would phone in the morning , or later that evening perhaps , to check that he was all right , but she guessed he would reject her concern . |
| 6 | In the wind and rattle sounds I 'd hear her start to cry and put my arm around her and lift her chin and say something that would calm her . |
| 7 | It would be the same for Rory — she 'd always known she 'd give her heart only once , and that was why she had n't played the love game with the same reckless abandon as so many of her contemporaries . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , the niggling doubt had been implanted and , at 13 weeks pregnant , to allay her own and her family 's fears , Fiona decided she would have her blood tested by her colleagues . |
| 9 | I had your Gran on to me in a bit of a flap , saying she 'd put her foot in it about your mother . ’ |
| 10 | He had asked Christina to attend this meeting too , saying he 'd value her opinion on the revised pool plans which Paul was bringing in . |
| 11 | The van drew up in Pretty Street and Miss Poraway and Mrs Abigail got out , Miss Poraway still talking about the cartoon , saying it would tickle her brother when she told him about it . |
| 12 | She should have known he would reject her sympathy . |
| 13 | Just because she had to leave a meeting suddenly did not mean she would relinquish her authority . |
| 14 | Six months ago we never thought she would achieve her ambition . ’ |
| 15 | Anyway , I thought she 'd change her mind . ’ |
| 16 | This picture , the third in Faye 's series , focused more fully on her face and the likeness of features and form was very good , but it showed her with such a yearning , wistful expression that everyone who saw it and knew her would think her life had been one long secret sorrow . |
| 17 | She said that if Constanza went it would break her heart . |
| 18 | For ten years , Anne who ran a G P practice from her home at Wallasey , tried to obstruct her daughter taking cannabis because she thought it would do her harm . |
| 19 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 20 | I told her we were Baptists and she said she would tell her husband because he thought Gran was an amazing woman having such a large family , but she had told him that we probably belonged to ‘ one of these odd religions ! ’ . |
| 21 | Thousands of pounds in costs were wasted when the woman said she would lose her job if she sat on the jury for the six-week conspiracy trial at Stafford Crown Court . |
| 22 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 23 | ‘ I wish she 'd get her hair done , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was out of the room . |