Example sentences of "she would have [vb pp] it " in BNC.

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1 Oh , Jay , I 'd have thought she 'd have done it by now , if she was going to .
2 If she could have wiped his memory as well as her own , she 'd have done it without any hesitation , and at whatever cost .
3 She 'd have loved it .
4 She 'd have said it was n't respectful . ’
5 She 'd have taken it !
6 She would have said it a third , even a fourth time , but he sealed her mouth with his own , possessing its sweetness with a plunderer 's purpose .
7 Sarah nodded , reluctantly , he felt , as if she would have denied it if she could .
8 Surely she would have worn it to show off to her relatives .
9 If it had , she would have handled it with a decisiveness that left no room for misunderstandings .
10 Though she would have liked it .
11 When she then kills the prey , it is impossible to prove that she does so to demonstrate the act of killing , because she would have killed it in any case , in order to eat it .
12 She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry .
13 If she had known what to do , she would have done it .
14 After all , though she was n't quite sure how she would have done it , she could have found some other way to lay hands on the money she needed .
15 Not that she would have seen it as any sacrifice that she had neither husband nor child .
16 Of course , she would have eaten it if her resolution had not been broken and nullified through a gross and mistaken act of kindness .
17 She would have eaten it anyway because she was hungry , she was nearly always hungry , it was almost the only thing she had in common with Weenie .
18 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 .
19 If only there were a radio she would have turned it on , loudly , but , of course , no such luck .
20 She would have hated it if she had to admit defeat , and crawl off to a hotel somewhere .
21 There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was …
22 Next week , she would have talked it through with three or four different people .
23 If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head .
24 Ruth thought she would have preferred it if he had shouted at her .
25 She would have preferred it if he had remained in the living-room .
26 She would have smelt it first — long before the old girl downstairs : she did n't smell it till we went in to get her . ’
27 If he had accepted her invitation to supper she would have taken it for encouragement ; he would simply have put off the evil day .
28 Halfway through dressing , wearing his shirt and underpants , he looked for Moda in the workroom , where he assumed she would have thrown it on their pile of magazines ; he wanted to gaze at Bella Kropotkin again , but he could n't find the magazine .
29 Being an outsider she would have got it anyway , but this precipitated matters .
30 In civvy street she would have found it hard to find a fellow to chat with and so she likely considered the war a godsend .
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