Example sentences of "she would [vb infin] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because she knew that before the month was out she would have said a permanent goodbye to him that she was greedy to spend as much time with him as she could now . |
| 2 | ‘ I am capable of cooking for myself , ’ he assured her stiffly , and she knew she would have to do a little begging to keep him from another burst of anger . |
| 3 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 4 | Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier . |
| 5 | She would have preferred a romantic candlelit dinner for two , but even more , she wanted Josh to see David as one of life 's pluses and not as an interloper . |
| 6 | Not that she would have allowed a little thing like lack of transport to get in her way — in her current mood she would have hired a private helicopter if necessary to get her to her destination . |
| 7 | Not that she would have allowed a little thing like lack of transport to get in her way — in her current mood she would have hired a private helicopter if necessary to get her to her destination . |
| 8 | She would have to have a stern talk with Debbie about including extraneous information instead of plain hard fact . |
| 9 | Harriet also said that she would like to arrange a private christening at the little chapel on the top of the cliffs on the other side of the bay . |
| 10 | Mrs V Hawkins mounted a display of photographs of Juniper Green past and present and hopes that others may add to what she would like to form a permanent record of the village . |
| 11 | She began to feel that she would like to become a Roman Catholic , partly to frighten her mother , who was one of the pioneer Christian Scientists in England , and partly because the rigorousness of the experience attracted her . |
| 12 | With those children now at secondary school she wanted to restart her career and decided that she would like to become a dental hygienist . |
| 13 | She says she has much more chance at this school of getting the qualifications she would need to become a social worker or a journalist ( she feels there a lot of good black journalists around but not enough women ) . |