Example sentences of "she would have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure she would have wanted children too . |
| 2 | Had she had it in her to be extraordinarily good she would have felt cosmopolitan , since , she considered , there was a definite elegance , a chic , in sanctity . |
| 3 | By this time tomorrow the whole thing would be forgotten and she would have forgiven Paula . |
| 4 | The bodice is quite small , but it 's actually not as , you read about eighteen inch waists , I mean this is nowhere near an eighteen inch waist , and although she would have worn corsets , she obviously did n't wear , you can see there , so much corseting that she could n't move , and that she could n't bend down if she had to . |
| 5 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 6 | Delaney had , since his young wife , Pam , who always worried stiff at his parachuting , had died underneath a juggernaut , with the son she would have given life to in one month 's time . |
| 7 | She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so . |
| 8 | If her eyes had been open , she would have seen Zeno heading for the cliff path . |
| 9 | If Mrs Hamilton had realised that she was pregnant , she would have stopped smoking , and in fact she did stop after the miscarriage . ’ |
| 10 | Penny would have known more wives from the Agency and from the Bureau than she would have met wives from the Service . |
| 11 | She would have turned heads anywhere in a navy blue backless dress which rose just above her knee . |
| 12 | But she thought of how , if the positions had been reversed , she would have written pages full of detail to Ellen , would have described a child in such a way as to make him spring from the writing , alive and visible . |
| 13 | She could n't do much yet , and was certainly not fit to take a job — otherwise she would have made Breeze go to Edinburgh , and gone down to Penzance herself . |
| 14 | She would have respected Simon Copley more if he had been less prone to venial selfishness , less preoccupied with his physical comfort , but this she told herself was probably the result of fifty years of spoiling by a devoted wife . |
| 15 | Most of the shutters were still closed and she would have welcomed light . |
| 16 | She would have let Lizzy go to the party eventually , she rarely denied the girl anything . |
| 17 | She would have preferred Terry to die quickly , but as long as he dies , I reckon she 'll be easy . ’ |
| 18 | She would have preferred Muriel , Lady Selvedge , with its dowager-like dignity . |
| 19 | She would have preferred ham , being a natural meat-eater , but cheese was cheaper and money was always short with her . |
| 20 | She would have preferred Stella to have been labelled as ‘ nice , or ‘ well-mannered ’ ; ‘ interesting ’ was a shade ambiguous . |
| 21 | As she stared into her bemused eyes , he slowly smiled , and in that moment she would have committed murder if he 'd asked her to . |
| 22 | She would have had publicity then ? ’ |
| 23 | The doctor had announced that the boy 's mother was dead and that she would have had twins but they had come prematurely because of her lifting something heavy . |
| 24 | But even if Kirsty had n't insisted , she would have taken part anyway . |
| 25 | After all , one feels , Mrs Washington was surely a thrifty housewife ; had the invention of margarine occurred a century sooner than it did , no doubt she would have taken advantage of the development . |
| 26 | She would have taken Moses back to the harem where he would be brought up with others , learning to read and write the Egyptian hieroglyphic and " cursive " scripts and gaining expertise in various skills and sports ( see Acts 7:22 ) . |
| 27 | If she had made it just a few feet further she would have found safety in the homely atmosphere of the estate where she lives with her family . |
| 28 | If when you and Pete had that trouble , if our Margaret had er been working , I honestly think she would have left Pete . |
| 29 | She did it as she would have thought Shakespeare would have known people and things , you know , she did it like that . |
| 30 | She did it as she would have thought Shakespeare would have known people and things , you know , she did it like that . |