Example sentences of "she would [verb] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Bernice could understand her wish for peace and quiet , Ell must be joking saying that she would prefer to be back home . |
| 2 | If she wanted this job , she would have to be reasonably pleasant to him , however much it stuck in her throat at times . |
| 3 | After the way she 'd upset David 's grandmother on Sunday , she would have to be extremely tactful . |
| 4 | ‘ She asked if you were all right , ’ Leith replied , not certain that she was n't breaking confidences , but feeling she would have to be far tougher than she was not to give in to his unspoken plea for some salve on his pain . |
| 5 | She would have to be more careful , keep a better hold on her tongue . |
| 6 | She would have to be very selective , of course , and just do the odd , fully clothed , tasteful commercial for perfume or something . |
| 7 | Sadly , she would have to be very discerning . |
| 8 | Thinking about the bars and wire mesh of her cage , and of how long she would have to be there , he nearly gave up the job there and then . |
| 9 | If the former , she would wish to be very certain of the value of the prize and fully confident that war will secure it . |
| 10 | If she was to replace the roses she had used , she realised wearily , she would need to be up again at four . |
| 11 | For once the little gate was locked , but she quickly pulled back the stone bolt and slipped outside , drawing the gate closed but not relocking it : she would need to be as little delayed as possible if she were to get back unnoticed , and the first servants rose early , at the ninth hour of night . |
| 12 | The biographies were terse and restrained , as far as his private life was concerned , and effusive only about the names and quality of his publications She thought that she might ring Peter de Salis , and ask him about Mrs Denham , but she did not want to do this , in case Mrs Denham was a lady of such fame that ignorance of her would prove to be positively compromising . |