Example sentences of "that she would have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ?
2 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 .
3 She had been a mother of sons only and I think now that she would have liked me to call her mother ; but then , such an idea never entered my head .
4 Mrs Cameron said yesterday that she would have liked to see the university medical school represented on the board .
5 Not that she would have fooled anyone as she was , but eighteen months of good food and expert surgery had transformed her , making the thousand yuan he 'd paid for her seem the merest trifle .
6 ‘ As a nurse , I could not understand why she did not directly approach the hospitals concerned , for at that time I had little doubt that she would have received informed , prompt , honest replies . ’
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 The fact that a deceased 's widow would have given up work to start a family but for the deceased 's death is not a matter to be taken into account so as to increase her dependency on the deceased from the date that she would have given up work ( Malone v Rowan [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 402 ) .
9 The last thought that flittered across her mind before she slept was that she would have given everything she possessed , sold her immortal soul , for Michele to have loved her as the Lion of Venice had loved his Lucia .
10 When it dawned on her that she would have to earn her own living , she made up her mind to work for a diploma and then teach , and do some book-illustrating while she cast about for her real métier .
11 Medical staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital did their utmost to try to save Mrs Loughran 's life but Mr Smith heard that at her age and with such extensive injuries it was very unlikely that she would have survived .
12 After an apparently unbreakable silence , Julia decided that she would have to say something else and so with considerable truth , she told him that she had missed him .
13 All Frizingley knew it , even his mother who had grown so incensed about Linnet 's poverty that she would have poisoned her if she could .
14 Something that she would have grasped , if it were n't for her own stupidity .
15 ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’
16 It was not , of course , the first time that she had exercised the powers of Regent , but on this particular occasion she knew that she would have to deal with a new constitutional structure in which it was envisaged that she would merely be informed by the Ministers and would take no decisions on her own .
17 She once admitted that she would have loved a career in politics and believed she was now being forced to draw upon all her native political skills to ensure that her design ideas and her control over image were not submerged in the drive to reduce the debts .
18 Not that she would have seen it as any sacrifice that she had neither husband nor child .
19 He looked so thunderous that she would have run had she been able , but the chance did not arise .
20 She decided that the link with Bert was unlikely to hold Jasper back from one of his binges ; that she would have to sit it out ; that Bert was almost certainly going after Pat ; that the best thing she could do was to organise a Congress of the C.C.U. for as soon as possible .
21 On one occasion the old crone who managed the NAAFI decided that she would have to charge an extra penny for a cup of tea .
22 She realised that she would have to take the initiative , or she 'd be sitting there forever .
23 Why he would be ringing , she could n't think , but when the phone rang again she realised that she would have to answer it .
24 ’ He sighed , knowing full well that she would have done .
25 How could he believe that she would have done such a thing ?
26 And now she knew that she would have done anything to be able to roll back the clock .
27 Almost immediately , Juliet realised that she would have done the same , if she 'd felt desperate .
28 Two weeks later Sarah told Mrs Bradford that she would have to leave , making Maggie the excuse .
29 For slowly , half-consciously , but inexorably , there was growing in her mind the conviction that she would have to leave home .
30 Her first thought was that she would have to leave the flat .
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