Example sentences of "[noun] she would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least with her young , keen eyes she would have seen that he was being duped by his own nephew . |
| 2 | If Mrs Thatcher had been on the programme she would have blown the whole idea of fairness out of the water . |
| 3 | If Kate had n't had so much on her mind she would have laughed at her mother 's scandalised voice . |
| 4 | He did n't say so , mind , but I told Angie she would have to watch it after she married him . |
| 5 | Devoid of animation , lacking the divine spirit of life , if he had not been a priest she would have thought the expression petulant , the top lip folded over the lower one in resentment and self-pity . |
| 6 | Being an outsider she would have got it anyway , but this precipitated matters . |
| 7 | It was as if the fight with Herman had had the effect she would have expected from eight hours on a contoured mattress and a course of Doc Threadneedle 's pick-me-up shots . |
| 8 | She climbed into the carriage knowing it would perhaps be for the last time ; maintaining the horses and the grooms was a luxury she would have to forgo . |
| 9 | Had they been anywhere else but on the sleekly beautiful boat she would have rounded on Nathan with a devastating tirade and cut the ground from under his feet . |
| 10 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 11 | And we used to go to town , we used to have really good , good er good day erm we used to have a procession and erm local , course local dignitaries used to come er , I I 've got a , one or two pictures in my scrapbook where erm it , I was asking , telling Jean she would have to look up er when we did begin trendsetters . |
| 12 | Journalist Meredith Oakley , of the Arkansas Gazette in the Clintons ' home state , said : ‘ If America had been ready for a female President she would have run herself . |
| 13 | But if it had meant working for two months she would have said immediately , as she did now , ‘ I 'll have it . ’ |
| 14 | Well , this was hardly the scene she 'd have imagined as the perfect time to wear the dress , but now she silently blessed the premonition which had made her pack it along with the predominantly casual clothes she 'd chosen to take to Sheffield . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ You have a slight fever , I think , ’ she replied with the quiet firmness she would have used towards any sick person . |
| 17 | The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote would n't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act . |
| 18 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 19 | If Jane Leeson had been a woman to examine her motives she would have absolved herself from any accusation of spite . |
| 20 | . If she 'd have got done the pho photocopier machine she would have got , she would have got all she deserves ! |
| 21 | And now , having walked all the way across Frizingley in her thin pale blue dress and her dark blue tablecloth cloak she would have to walk back again — and fast — before she froze to death where she stood . |
| 22 | That was a defence she would have to repeat — again and again . |
| 23 | The grief and horror she would have expected to experience were somehow blunted and held at bay , though whether permanently or not she had no way of knowing . |
| 24 | Moreover , a married woman can use her husband 's contribution record to make up her basic pension to the level she would have got as his dependant . |
| 25 | If you ask me , if she had n't been so fussed over by you and your Mum she 'd have turned round and faced up to things and been a lot happier . |
| 26 | Of course she would have tried the light . ’ |
| 27 | In any case she would have had to wait , probably for many years … |
| 28 | Travelling along at such a pace was an experience she would have enjoyed no end on a happier occasion , and even now she savoured the luxury of sweeping by those on foot as if she were royalty . |
| 29 | She did n't , I mean if they were gon na give more money she 'd have said . |
| 30 | She did not know how many miles or minutes she would have to drive before she left Ayling farmlands behind too . |