Example sentences of "she would have [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She kept trying to trample them , slam the door , but he kept kicking it back open and sooner or later she 'd have to put a name to her feelings , and she was afraid , so afraid , that the name was love … but it must n't be , she thought savagely ; it ca n't be .
2 She 'd have to take a drink of water .
3 She 'd have to get a taxi home .
4 It looked as though she 'd have to have a word with Mrs Thrigg .
5 But she wanted a man , so she knew she 'd have to pay a price , any price .
6 She was told she 'd have to pay a £116 a week for it because she 's in a private nursing home .
7 She knew she would have to take a look .
8 Melanie wondered if she would have to take a tray to the basement but it seemed they had their own gas ring down there and brewed up continually for themselves .
9 If the woman did n't move soon she would have to invent an excuse .
10 I recall one occasion when Mother was so busy trying to finish knitting a quilt — I 've still got it somewhere that she said she would have to miss a service .
11 He told Lisa that before the operation , and for a few months after , she would have to wear a steel frame pinned to her head and connected to a rigid plaster jacket to hold her damaged neck in place .
12 Loretta had assumed that she would have to leave a message for Jamie with some college functionary , and wait for him to ring back .
13 She would have to eat a bucket of chicken vindaloo to get the stuff down her and , although there had been publicly expressed doubts about the kitchens of the ‘ Tandoori ’ , Wimbledon , they had n't , as far as Henry knew , got around to using bleach to liven up their menu .
14 She would have to find a dressing-gown .
15 If she wanted to get home in comfort , she would have to find a cashpoint .
16 She would have to find an envelope and buy a stamp ( where was the post office ? ) and post the letter and then a day would pass and then Mrs Rundle would take out her spectacles to read the letter in some new kitchen , with a refrigerator and a stove with automatic oven-control and an eye-level grill and gleaming plastic working surfaces and an electric blender and an electric coffee-mill , probably .
17 This meant that whichever of the leading candidates was eventually declared president , he or she would have to face a legislature dominated by a rival party .
18 I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in .
19 she would have to get a lot more fed up and tired with this old , time-frozen body before suicide became a serious alternative .
20 She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place .
21 She was fed up , she was hungry , and now she would have to confront a horde of troublesome workmen lounging about the house , banging nails , screwing screws and making ribald comments when what she had thought she was escaping to was a slice of peace and solitude .
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