Example sentences of "she would [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know whether she was ever a Brownie , but she was a Girl Guide , and I do know she 'd love to have you around if you 're mad on horses . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm quite sure she 'd like to have several more children yet — five seems a good number . |
| 3 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 4 | She 'd have to have a debriefing session with Edwin when they 'd gone . |
| 5 | It looked as though she 'd have to have a word with Mrs Thrigg . |
| 6 | But then she remembered what the wise old turtle had told her about putting herself in the dog 's place , and doing what she would want to have done to her . |
| 7 | I was very worried so her owner said she would arrange to have the two largest removed surgically . |
| 8 | As soon as we arrived after our long pull from the valley , she would arrange to have the horse taken out of the shafts . |
| 9 | Paula says that she would love to have children but has n't yet found the right man to have children with . |
| 10 | She would have to have some money to support it , and it was only right he should pay for the pleasure he 'd had . |
| 11 | If she laid at dawn , like most birds , she would have to have prepared the day before . |
| 12 | It was a dead time of day in Loxford , with only a handful of people out in their gardens — she would have to have the usual shouted conversation with Mr Biddle among his brassica stumps , and a whispered one with Mrs Eddoes , who treated life as a giant conspiracy — and nobody in the shop or on the green . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And in the morning she would have to have a very long talk with Feargal 's mother . |
| 15 | She would have to have a stern talk with Debbie about including extraneous information instead of plain hard fact . |
| 16 | She said she 'd realised how tired your parents were becoming and she knew that if she wanted to remain at home on a long-term basis she would have to have some form of respite care . |
| 17 | She would like to have asked them , but knew that it would have been impossibly presumptuous . |
| 18 | There was a lot more she would like to have said but she knew it was useless . |
| 19 | She would like to have said , ‘ Yes , I jolly well do , ’ but that would have been suicide . |
| 20 | You asked her if she would like to have the bairn , her being a minister 's wife . |
| 21 | She listened to his calm voice explaining that he was not available and if she would like to leave a message … but the message she would like to have left was far too complicated , so she rang off without saying anything . |
| 22 | She would like to have stayed a littlke longer to see some more of the country |
| 23 | She would like to have stayed a littlke longer to see some more of the country |
| 24 | Once she had been tarnished by my imagination , she would cease to have any power over me . |
| 25 | Surely , I thought , she would need to have her brothers and their wives around her more , not less , frequently now ? |