Example sentences of "she [modal v] have [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might have stayed at the home for years — people do . |
| 2 | He stepped away from her and she could have wept at the cold desolation that closed round her . |
| 3 | She could have continued at the City Press , and he remained a policeman . |
| 4 | She was walking too quickly , stumbling occasionally , past long belts like dressing-gown cords hanging from poles , which plucked at her face as she pushed through , straying over a pile of new dyed wool , brilliant and damp , into a glare of sunlight , stepping back from a mule loaded with carpets , bumping into a wall where blue thread ran along from a spinning wheel , guarded from tangling by small boys who pushed at her and muttered and laughed ; she would have grasped at the thin thread to lead her out . |
| 5 | But she would have woken at the sound of an engine . |
| 6 | And she would have to smile at the first question and say , ‘ Oh , no , no , of course lot . |
| 7 | She would have to look at the local papers . |
| 8 | It involved quick learning of the part , for she would have to appear at the matinée ; but in fact there were few lines to say , and most of the acting involved being laid on a sofa by a young man and proposed to , after various adventures which were mostly physical . |