Example sentences of "[that] [pron] would have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice . |
| 2 | ‘ I realised the drink was not helping and that I would have to stop it . ’ |
| 3 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 4 | I distinctly remember feeling guilty at thinking that I would have to lock my car so these children would n't steal my cameras . |
| 5 | After my marriage I realised that I would have to use it , put it on whenever I went out . |
| 6 | But even if he had given me a direct answer , I do n't know that I would have believed him . |
| 7 | I would have been sorrier still if she had not paraded her distress so openly , sighing and staring into space and insisting that Richard should buy her whisky , which is expensive in Morocco — in her place I should have been so humiliated and ashamed that I would have done my best to put a good face on it — but I was sorry enough to agree that she should come with us , in our car . |
| 8 | In another tone , she said , ‘ Not that I would have let her . ’ |
| 9 | You do n't think that I would have left you alone , down here , if I had n't known that you were all well and happy , do you ? |
| 10 | ‘ You 're so good at reading my mind that I would have thought you 'd know . ’ |
| 11 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 12 | I knew in advance that I would have to retrace my steps on this road , to get to the Skye boat at the Kyle of Lochalsh , as there is nowadays only a summer ferry to the island from Glenelg . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Not that she would have fooled anyone as she was , but eighteen months of good food and expert surgery had transformed her , making the thousand yuan he 'd paid for her seem the merest trifle . |
| 16 | The last thought that flittered across her mind before she slept was that she would have given everything she possessed , sold her immortal soul , for Michele to have loved her as the Lion of Venice had loved his Lucia . |
| 17 | When it dawned on her that she would have to earn her own living , she made up her mind to work for a diploma and then teach , and do some book-illustrating while she cast about for her real métier . |
| 18 | After an apparently unbreakable silence , Julia decided that she would have to say something else and so with considerable truth , she told him that she had missed him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Not that she would have seen it as any sacrifice that she had neither husband nor child . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And now she knew that she would have done anything to be able to roll back the clock . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nervous , perhaps , on edge maybe , because it seemed to her that she would have to keep her wits about her unless she wanted this outing to end up as fruitless as the other times she had been in his company . |
| 27 | In due course , she knew that she would have to pull herself together . |
| 28 | My father knew , as do I — who better ? — ’ he retorted bitterly ‘ — that she would have sold it , used the money for her own ends . |
| 29 | The poet 's wife tried to avoid going , by saying that it was late for the child and that she would have expected her husband not to be curious . |
| 30 | The answer is that you would have to slog it out all the way from London to Baghdad . |