Example sentences of "she would [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , no , she 'll she 'll erm she 'll query it , but just as well she noticed otherwise she 'd have been merrily paying it and Norm Norma does n't |
| 2 | If she had n't been with him she 'd have been here before now . |
| 3 | She 'd have been too far gone to hear . |
| 4 | But she 'd have been there ! |
| 5 | If a visit there had been less pressing she 'd have been very willing to cuddle down into the comfortable bed and let sleep blank out her problems for a while . |
| 6 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 7 | I do n't know she 'd have been better off here . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily . |
| 9 | She knew a lot about birds — she 'd have been perfectly able to do a short stint , teaching them to fly and so forth . |
| 10 | She would 've been all fat there once , and a baby growing inside of her . |
| 11 | She would have been completely convinced , but for that limpid , lovely photograph on the book 's cover , so serene , and pure , and gracious in its emptiness of man , a tragic landscape recognised and captured . |
| 12 | She would have been fast asleep already , but for the Admiral 's early-morning call . |
| 13 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 14 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 15 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 16 | In other times she would have been obsessively at her pen or her typewriter ; as it was , she harassed her scribes and possible scribes continually — to death , it would appear in the case of the first one . |
| 17 | He felt her breathing change again , anticipating pleasure ; knew , without looking , that she would have been newly aroused by his ministrations ; that her nipples would be stiff , her eyes wide with expectation . |
| 18 | Yet had she been asked what that destination was she would have been hard put to it to answer . |
| 19 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 20 | If she had thought for one moment he was serious she would have been deeply shocked . |
| 21 | Tonight she would have been quite willing to let him do anything he wanted just as long as things would go back to being the way they had been . |
| 22 | She would have been quite content simply to stare at the house for hours , and she was still sitting there when Alain opened her door and bent to look in at her . |
| 23 | She would have been quite happy to have fatherless children . |
| 24 | Often she had wondered if she would have been quite so successful if she had n't thrown herself so totally into her work in a desperate attempt to mend her broken heart . |
| 25 | She would have been less relieved had she known that the second girl had been attacked by an ex-boyfriend , who had been arrested . |
| 26 | For some reason , though , she found herself following him , once again , even though she would have been far better staying where she was and letting the anger drain out of her . |
| 27 | We felt this was important and valuable for otherwise she would have been so much in the company of adults . |
| 28 | ‘ You do an old man proud , cariad , ’ he said softly , ‘ I only wish your mother was here to see you today , she would have been so happy . ’ |
| 29 | If they had been chatting , no matter how lightly , she would have been so absorbed in carefully listening and in getting out a reply through a nervously constricted throat that she would n't have been able to enjoy this wonderful drive . |
| 30 | For the moment , she did n't stop to wonder why she would have been so distressed if Tom had seen that unpleasant kiss . |