Example sentences of "[that] she would have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The river , so wide that she would have mistaken it for the sea , was full of craft of all sizes , though most of them lay at anchor . |
| 2 | She had been a mother of sons only and I think now that she would have liked me to call her mother ; but then , such an idea never entered my head . |
| 3 | All Frizingley knew it , even his mother who had grown so incensed about Linnet 's poverty that she would have poisoned her if she could . |
| 4 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 5 | Not that she would have seen it as any sacrifice that she had neither husband nor child . |
| 6 | She decided that the link with Bert was unlikely to hold Jasper back from one of his binges ; that she would have to sit it out ; that Bert was almost certainly going after Pat ; that the best thing she could do was to organise a Congress of the C.C.U. for as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Why he would be ringing , she could n't think , but when the phone rang again she realised that she would have to answer it . |
| 8 | I contacted my social worker and told her that I could not stay at this place and that she would have to find me a Cheshire Home . |
| 9 | My father knew , as do I — who better ? — ’ he retorted bitterly ‘ — that she would have sold it , used the money for her own ends . |