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

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1 He was going to kiss her , she thought wildly , he was going to bend her back over his arm and put his mouth to her throat , and she — she would close her eyes , she would arch her body to his …
2 She would fracture that glass bowl which kept her imprisoned once and for all .
3 Every day of the season she would travel in her carriage and six to Ashdown Park on top of the downs , where she would course for hares with her magnificent greyhounds and walk for twenty-five miles .
4 Norm had to call her , then shake her , and she would stagger downstairs and hang like an exhausted alcoholic over a clutched mug of coffee .
5 Outraged by the bloody repression , Dai Qing publicly resigned from the Communist Party and said that she would distance herself from politics to concentrate on her writings .
6 But this Anne Mowbray would stop at nothing — she would chance all to be alone with him she loved best in the world ; on one throw of the dice …
7 No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim .
8 She would shuttle up with her equipment as soon as I got established just outside Uulaa 's territorial space .
9 As she plodded through her notes she decided that at the end of the month she would hand in her notice , and on the day she left she would brandish Elise 's diary before his eyes .
10 I was convinced she would muck the whole thing up !
11 They entered the house at lightning speed , with Robyn only too aware of the expensive hallway , the elegant furnishings , convinced that at any moment she would disgrace herself ; to vomit now , before she reached a bathroom , would be the final humiliation .
12 She would only bewilder him quite as much as she would distress him .
13 Tomorrow she would book another ride ; she would fit in a swim before breakfast , possibly before dinner as well ; and the day after that she would walk — thirty miles would be a reasonable target this time .
14 She would book in for another night at the hotel and leave in the early morning .
15 and , and er she would sort of say oh and here 's a theatre make a wee bit effort yes that might be the answer
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