Example sentences of "she would have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd have liked a nice cup of milky tea . |
| 2 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 3 | It was because she knew that before the month was out she would have said a permanent goodbye to him that she was greedy to spend as much time with him as she could now . |
| 4 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 5 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 6 | Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier . |
| 7 | She would have preferred a romantic candlelit dinner for two , but even more , she wanted Josh to see David as one of life 's pluses and not as an interloper . |
| 8 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 9 | Not that she would have allowed a little thing like lack of transport to get in her way — in her current mood she would have hired a private helicopter if necessary to get her to her destination . |
| 10 | Not that she would have allowed a little thing like lack of transport to get in her way — in her current mood she would have hired a private helicopter if necessary to get her to her destination . |
| 11 | She would have passed a hundred breathalysers . ’ |
| 12 | Any member of stab who went into the Biology Lab before her would have needed a good excuse to explain his presence there , unless , of course , he was a member of the Biology Department . |