Example sentences of "that she [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray , and McLeish was left with the feeling that she would willingly have done the same to the live flesh of Angela Morgan , if available . |
| 2 | Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests . |
| 3 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 4 | I apply the A A schedule of motoring costs , B one eight one , for an engine capacity of two thousand and one to three thousand C C , of three thousand two hundred and eighty eight pounds and eighty eight pence and subtract from that figure the corresponding figure for an engine capacity of one thousand and one to fourteen hundred C C , namely one thousand two hundred and fifty three pounds and thirteen pence for the vehicle I find that she would otherwise have run . |
| 5 | Fergus did not say it , but he thought that Dierdriu would hear the cry , and he thought , as well , that she would also have experienced the immense lonelinesses , the sudden fierce panics , because it was inevitable that when you were a creature not quite Human , you would instinctively look for your own kind . |
| 6 | But it became clear that she would soon have to go out in the rain and get a bus to their sister convent . |
| 7 | But news was meanwhile piling up , news that she would ordinarily have passed immediately to him . |
| 8 | So two years after they married and as the couple face divorce , Isabelle Duchesnay is a sadder and wiser woman , aware now that she would always have come second to his work in her husband 's affections and that , because of her role in Chris 's life , Jayne Torvill turned into the spectre at the feast . |
| 9 | When she tried to explain that she would now have to live on five shillings a week , she could not restrain a few tears . |
| 10 | Celia supposed that she would now have to say something about why she did n't want a child , but it seemed so difficult to put into words . |
| 11 | ‘ The lady informs me , ’ said the Substitute as they drove away and the Captain reported the husband 's silence , ‘ that his brother is a bad lot , the bane of her life , that she would never have married Salvatore — who , I should tell you , is a saint , a veritable saint , when considered on his own — if she had known she 'd be stuck with the terrible Antonio as well . |
| 12 | When her mother died Constance had turned slightly vegetarian and announced that she would never have any children since her mum had had ten and put her off the whole idea , and she gave away the chickens . |
| 13 | At the opening of the exhibition I overhead one declaring that she would never have ‘ Muse of War ’ ( oil on canvas , 199091 ) in her house , it was far too frightening . |
| 14 | It was something that she would never have thought possible and now that it had actually happened , now that she knew she was n't dreaming , she wanted it to last . |
| 15 | A second recognised that she may actually have chosen a philandering partner because she 's frightened of lifetime exclusivity herself . |
| 16 | But together with the other matters , it raises the possibility that she may never have known Daniel at all . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She left no clues , you see , so no one really considered that she might just have run away . ’ |
| 18 | But as he walked at her side through the dark halls of the Grail Castle , he remembered , and wished not to remember , that she might well have within her the strange power that could awaken all manner of sleeping bewitchments and lost enchantments . |
| 19 | And on they sped so swiftly that she might almost have cried out with Ostanes , less in trepidation than delight , ‘ Save me , O God , for I stand between two exalted brilliances … |
| 20 | And then , before she could realise what he was at and pull away , his lips brushed hers , so gently , so fleetingly that she might almost have dreamed it . |
| 21 | She peered out of the window again , hoping that she might perhaps have imagined the scene below , but Miss Hardbroom had not moved and was now almost hidden from view by the smoke . |
| 22 | It was the risk of getting caught and then losing any chance that she might ever have of getting her hands on Charlie 's ledger information . |
| 23 | She often worried about her feelings for David , but the thought that she might never have known him made her feel almost ill . |
| 24 | She 's not painted for so long that she 'll just have to be encouraged more and more . |
| 25 | And that she 'll just have to take a chance tonight . |
| 26 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |
| 27 | Quietly she asked , ‘ Is it so terrible to let an unhappy or humiliated woman forget , for a few hours , the problems that she will probably have to put up with for her whole life ? ’ |
| 28 | To Emma Durham , the Treasurer , who against difficult odds kept us solvent , to Michelle O'Callaghan , the Social Secretary , whose art of mixing cocktails ensures that she will always have something to fall back on should the need arise , and to Diane Mynors , the Housechair for her ability to seek out bargains ( how many people do you know that could get 14 bottles of dishwashing liquid for 64 p . |
| 29 | But consideration apart , Josie 's answer was the one that she 'd probably have given anyway . |
| 30 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |