Example sentences of "she would have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure she would have wanted children too . |
| 2 | Poor Ned , cruel with his jealousy , who had already made it clear to her that as soon as Captain Goldsborough went away again — as he surely would — to see to his interests in Antigua and Martinique , then she would have to give Ned exactly what he wanted . |
| 3 | Had she had it in her to be extraordinarily good she would have felt cosmopolitan , since , she considered , there was a definite elegance , a chic , in sanctity . |
| 4 | By this time tomorrow the whole thing would be forgotten and she would have forgiven Paula . |
| 5 | The bodice is quite small , but it 's actually not as , you read about eighteen inch waists , I mean this is nowhere near an eighteen inch waist , and although she would have worn corsets , she obviously did n't wear , you can see there , so much corseting that she could n't move , and that she could n't bend down if she had to . |
| 6 | The only problem there , though , since she would have to let Personnel at Vasey 's know where she had moved to , was that her employer would have no trouble in finding her at her new address either ! |
| 7 | She would issue the new instructions regarding strangers and then she would have to see Mr Lee about a permanent bodyguard here in the house , someone who would blend in … a manservant . |
| 8 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 9 | ‘ If a woman wanted to maintain the right to come back into a job she would have to take part in in-service courses to keep up to date with changes in the working world . ’ |
| 10 | Delaney had , since his young wife , Pam , who always worried stiff at his parachuting , had died underneath a juggernaut , with the son she would have given life to in one month 's time . |
| 11 | She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so . |
| 12 | If her eyes had been open , she would have seen Zeno heading for the cliff path . |
| 13 | If Mrs Hamilton had realised that she was pregnant , she would have stopped smoking , and in fact she did stop after the miscarriage . ’ |
| 14 | Putting the paper to one side , Loretta told herself that she would have to put Hugh Puddephat out of her mind until Saturday . |
| 15 | However unpleasant she would find it , she would have to watch Eddie 's fatal accident , even if the thought made her feel ill . |
| 16 | Penny would have known more wives from the Agency and from the Bureau than she would have met wives from the Service . |
| 17 | She would have to ask Father Barnes . |
| 18 | She would have turned heads anywhere in a navy blue backless dress which rose just above her knee . |
| 19 | Eva had pretended she would have to do office work until after lunch on the Sunday , when in fact she had wanted to have lunch out at a cafe with a girlfriend . |
| 20 | The Parminter tale was utterly scandalous and she would have to persuade Wilmot to skate around the libel laws if it were to get into print , but she kept these reservations to herself . |
| 21 | But she thought of how , if the positions had been reversed , she would have written pages full of detail to Ellen , would have described a child in such a way as to make him spring from the writing , alive and visible . |
| 22 | She could n't do much yet , and was certainly not fit to take a job — otherwise she would have made Breeze go to Edinburgh , and gone down to Penzance herself . |
| 23 | At that instant she chose the path of her own life , and understood that in time she would have to part company with her friend . |
| 24 | Fabia cut in only then comprehending that to get home by next Wednesday she would have to leave Mariánské Láznë at the latest by Tuesday — always supposing she had her car back , which was doubtful . |
| 25 | She would have respected Simon Copley more if he had been less prone to venial selfishness , less preoccupied with his physical comfort , but this she told herself was probably the result of fifty years of spoiling by a devoted wife . |
| 26 | She would have to tell Andrew how little they could hope from Deer Forest , then or in future times . |
| 27 | Most of the shutters were still closed and she would have welcomed light . |
| 28 | He spat a bit as he spoke and Carrie dreaded the moment when she would have to shake hands and be spat at . |
| 29 | She would have let Lizzy go to the party eventually , she rarely denied the girl anything . |
| 30 | She would have preferred Terry to die quickly , but as long as he dies , I reckon she 'll be easy . ’ |