Example sentences of "she [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Saint Winifred did indeed conceive and decree her departure with the wagon for Ramsey , and if a saint 's plans can not be disrupted by man , then surely she must also have willed all that happened after … the ambush by outlaws , the theft of the cart and team , the abandonment of the load , and with it , her reliquary , to be found by my tenants , and brought to me here . |
| 2 | Anna supposed that she should then have had another baby , to keep Flora company , but had found that she felt as unlike having another baby as she had once felt like it . |
| 3 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 4 | She could also have told this was Tina 's mother before Mrs Darne went off down the passage that led to the Headmaster 's Flat . |
| 5 | He said : " she could still have altered that last part of what she foresaw . |
| 6 | She said she 'd rather have had some lilac bathsalts , the sort that crumpled to silk in the water . |
| 7 | She 'd probably have slapped another man 's face for that , she realised wearily — either that or lobbed back a playfully witty rejoinder . |
| 8 | She 'd never have waited this long . |
| 9 | She would even have preferred more of his contemptuous accusations to this present chilling remoteness . |
| 10 | Had she looked she would indeed have seen many faces peeking from behind twitched curtains , but she was too busy with ‘ copulation ’ , ‘ coition ’ , ‘ clitoris ’ , ‘ testicles ’ and ‘ fuck ’ . |
| 11 | Without the help of Daniel Marsh she would never have survived those dreadful days . |
| 12 | If she had not learned to clean so thoroughly she would never have taken each and every picture off the wall to dust both the picture and the wall behind . |
| 13 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |