Example sentences of "she would have [vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penelope 's way home took her along St Basil 's Terrace , or if it had not done she would have arranged her journey to include it , even if it had meant a slight detour . |
| 2 | ‘ If neither of us had been here she would have gone her time . ’ |
| 3 | She would have felt her jaw cracking , her eyeballs filling with blood . |
| 4 | If she 'd been stopped in a car with this level of alcohol in her , she would have lost her licence for a year at least and got a hefty fine . |
| 5 | She would have liked her mother to see the Cotswolds at their best . |
| 6 | He made her angry , but subconsciously she would have liked his approval , would have liked to be on the same terms with him as Joanna was with Ian . |
| 7 | She stopped , then said fiercely , ‘ If you 're thinking she would have treated your father like that you 're quite wrong . ’ |
| 8 | Still , she would have done her bit and her conscience would be clear . |
| 9 | She felt she would have done her duty by Marguerite and even by her father for Marguerite 's sake . |
| 10 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 11 | His tender , almost lazy exploration of her body swelled her love till she felt that if she died at this very moment she would have lived her life to the full . |
| 12 | Probably if not certainly she would have rejected his intervention . |
| 13 | If the child in the cradle on whom Carabosse lays her curse after the other fairy godmothers have given her everything that makes a girl lovable could have understood the ordinary life she was forfeiting , she would have renounced their fairy boons ; given the choice , Caterina would have rejected her charms too , in order to be closer to her sister , to be more like Rosa . |
| 14 | In youth she would have dressed her hair to cover them . |
| 15 | He left the sentence unfinished , reaching for her as she would have retaken her seat , drawing her into his arms before she had realised his intention . |
| 16 | Her eyelids flipped open , and the world was hard-edged , dull and ugly , and so big , so big it squashed the tiny meanings out of sight but still they hovered on the borders of her mental vision and she would have dreamt her way back into that fae¨rie ether but a harsh voice slurred a saw of sound at her . |
| 17 | Had his character been different she would have welcomed his attention . |
| 18 | The handling of the " Fools rush in where angels fear to tread " theme , though not wholly elegant , showed ambition , and the assumption that Clara was responsible for the dismissal of Higginbotham showed courtesy , though she would have preferred his name to be left out of it altogether . |
| 19 | It was when she would have had her child . |
| 20 | If Cad had become aware of him on that occasion , as she soon would , when she became their go-between , she would have taken his attachment as her due : she counted the giving of delight as nothing for she accomplished it without intending it . |
| 21 | Surely she would have got his message ? |
| 22 | The VDs were n't part of her arsenal , but she would have appreciated their style . |
| 23 | She would have put her life on it . |
| 24 | 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 . |