Example sentences of "[adj] she would [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , Emily Bronte never went to Ireland ( nor did her grandfather travel to England ) , so I am afraid she would not have heard any story ‘ at the fireside on the farm at Drumballyroney in Co . |
| 3 | They are convinced she would not have gone with anyone willingly . |
| 4 | But the harder they pressed her , the more confused she would probably have become . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sure she would n't have wanted this . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm sure she would n't have taken the matter lightly if it had been her own colleagues who had been beaten up and tortured . |
| 7 | Jenny was nine , and even if she had n't been adventurous she would probably have fallen in the river anyway , because there was nothing much to do at Dale End but get into mischief . |
| 8 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
| 9 | I 'm not sure what authority , if any , Waaf Officers had over NCOs in the RAF , but I 'm pretty certain she would n't have got very far with him . |