Example sentences of "she would [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would n't talk to your colleagues , but she 'd settle for talking to me . ’ |
| 2 | It was as though he 'd known she 'd appear at precisely that moment with precisely that eager expression on her face . |
| 3 | Sally burst into such a fit of giggling , Jess thought she 'd explode from the tight lacings of her bodice . |
| 4 | And before Leith could say a word to lessen his agitation , ‘ Heaven alone knows what chance I 've got with Rosemary now , but she 'd finish with me for sure , I know she would , if anyone else knew about us ! ’ |
| 5 | she 'd sit on Vicki 's knee but she would n't sit |
| 6 | What , she 'd sit with sitting on her own ? |
| 7 | Alina mostly took her breaks alone ; she 'd sit in a corner with a magazine , usually one of Adele 's old wildlife partworks , and be about as obtrusive as a church mouse until her time was over . |
| 8 | She 'd sit in her dressing-gown by the window and try to listen for the electric trams on the distant street , anything to give some kind of shape or structure to her day , but the noise made even this impossible . |
| 9 | She , it would n't be bad if she 'd sit in there . |
| 10 | It took a long time before she 'd sit in that chair . |
| 11 | Posh Porky seemed to be torn between going along with her old man to the synagogue and staying put at the shop , where she 'd sit by the window and start scoffing cream buns the moment he was out of sight . |
| 12 | It might be part of her job to parade through the ballroom but she surely did n't want to have to prattle facts and figures for what she was wearing now , a skin-tight concoction of bugle heads and sequins that probably cost more than she 'd make for the entire year . |
| 13 | She 'd make for the kitchen , she thought , and let herself out through the back door . |
| 14 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 15 | She 'd want to be like him . |
| 16 | Leonora dreamed of the fierce rapture they 'd shared on the island and began to long for Penry to want her violently , to stop treating her like a younger sister , and sometimes after he 'd gone she 'd stare in the mirror in discontent , wishing she were tall , or voluptuous , or blonde . |
| 17 | It was inevitable that she 'd break with us . ’ |
| 18 | I would n't of thought so I would of sa I would of said well if I bloody ju good enough for living with I bleeding come on a I do n't think she 'd want him on holiday with her anyway and her sister said is she had n't got enough money , she 'd pay for it . |
| 19 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |
| 20 | So Shaun 's well in favour so he could look after her , I think she 'd stay with him . |
| 21 | Oh she 'd stay in bed all day . |
| 22 | They could only lead down a particularly humiliating blind alley she 'd vowed she 'd avoid at all costs … |
| 23 | And if if the soup was cold she 'd complain after it tell everyone how bad it was but she wo n't |
| 24 | She had also made one or two favourable remarks on the occasions she 'd seen him working out , and had assured him that , once he 'd attained the standards she 'd set for him , he could look forward to being given a fairly prominent role in the next major presentation . |
| 25 | Although she 'd protest at the mere notion , she sacrificed a possible future career as a contralto — to put marriage and the family first . |
| 26 | I mean , Kylie Minogue in a wheelchair would not be Kylie Minogue , because if she went on ‘ Top of the Pops ’ it would be : ‘ Here 's tragic Kylie , here 's a scene from her hospital bed ’ , then she 'd sink into never-never land — bye-bye . |
| 27 | She 'd laugh at things . |
| 28 | Maybe he thought , if he drove her hard enough and far enough , she 'd quit of her own accord . |
| 29 | I 'm sure she 'd talk to you , Dr Kent . |
| 30 | Marion decided finally that she 'd start with " Dearest Pete " and work up gradually to " Pete , my darling " because that seemed to her to be the most loving , the most tender , the most romantic : the one with the sound of real love echoing round the saying of it when it was spoken . |