Example sentences of "she [vb mod] have [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one aspect of his character she ought to have guessed at was his total loyalty to family . |
| 2 | She ought to have stayed at home , or gone to stay with her boyfriend in Halesowen . |
| 3 | She supposed she must have risen at some point to light a candle on the mantlepiece . |
| 4 | Although she was two or three inches shorter than Charlie , she must have weighed at least a stone more than he did ; a genuine heavyweight . |
| 5 | As the insects met a sticky death on her windscreen and brambles and gorse bushes clawed at the bright sides of her hired Fiat , she wondered if she should have stayed at home and if she would ever , in fact , see ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 6 | Of course , she told herself , she should have known at once that he was n't Kettering . |
| 7 | She should have started at seven — and found the body almost immediately . ’ |
| 8 | This perhaps supports the criticism that the Queen 's advisers should not have allowed her to be urged into an immediate invitation to Lord Home and that she should have taken at least a little time fully to apprise herself of the changing political situation and of the views of the Conservative leadership , as it was then emerging . |
| 9 | She might have guessed at his answer . |
| 10 | She might have stayed at the home for years — people do . |
| 11 | Had Theodora not been her father 's daughter , and therefore beautifully bred , she might have snorted at such palpable idiocy |
| 12 | He stepped away from her and she could have wept at the cold desolation that closed round her . |
| 13 | ‘ So , ’ Leith swallowed down at least four contradictions she could have lobbed at him , and queried sarcastically instead , ‘ what would you like to talk about ? ’ |
| 14 | She could have continued at the City Press , and he remained a policeman . |
| 15 | She could have laughed at her husband 's struggle to hide a strange mixture of emotions . |
| 16 | But , such was her superiority over Good For The Roses and 17 others that she could have won at almost any distance . |
| 17 | And I expect if your father had n't died she 'd have had at least twenty children ! |
| 18 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He smiled directly at her and she smiled back to hide her slight embarrassment at the sexuality in the comment , knowing that a few weeks earlier she would have blushed at it . |
| 21 | If Kate had n't had so much on her mind she would have laughed at her mother 's scandalised voice . |
| 22 | If Cassie had not been so consumed by rage , she would have laughed at this last and patently childish remark . |
| 23 | But she would have woken at the sound of an engine . |
| 24 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 25 | If the whole business had not been impossibly difficult , she wondered if she would have bothered at all . |