Example sentences of "she would have [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 | A woman present asked if Elizabeth were my sister , and at one time I wished she had been — but better not , for she would have lost an adored and incalculable mother and gained a dreadfully unhappy home ; and it would be a pity if we had shared the same literary material . |
3 | It was exactly what she would have imagined an ex-racing driver to choose , but when he set off she was surprised at how carefully he drove . |
4 | On one occasion the old crone who managed the NAAFI decided that she would have to charge an extra penny for a cup of tea . |
5 | ‘ 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 . |
6 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
7 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
8 | Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier . |
9 | If she went , she would have made an irreversible decision . |
10 | She would have made an excellent Madame . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Today , when she went for Lin Foh , she would have to find a firmer resolve . |
13 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
14 | If Fen had n't returned by morning she would have to pack a few essentials , lock up the boat and make her way back to Little Kirkton by public transport , and Fen would have achieved his objective — to be rid of her . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | She would have to have a stern talk with Debbie about including extraneous information instead of plain hard fact . |
18 | She would have passed a hundred breathalysers . ’ |