Example sentences of "she would [adv] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so she said , she 'd rather just have fifteen or sixteen of us and just do an hour cos we 'd learn a lot more which is very true . |
| 2 | ‘ I guess they just want other sorts of women in their movies in Hollywood , ’ she shrugs , saying she 'd rather now have no offers at all than be asked to play the kind of ‘ one-note , bitchy character ’ that has since come her way . |
| 3 | Given the choice , she 'd really rather have had an assignment in Outer Mongolia or possibly Timbuktu — maybe by putting a few thousand miles between herself and Dane she 'd manage to get him out of her mind . |
| 4 | She 'd far rather have enjoyed the company of her contemporaries and , in fact , Colonel Goreng did n't forbid her consorting with them . |
| 5 | Maybe she 's a control freak , he was thinking , getting into an unreasonable flap just because she might have taken something that could unclench her a little ; but then if he 'd kept his mouth shut , she 'd never even have known . |
| 6 | She was already counting the minutes until she 'd march out the front door of the Palazzo Sabatini , secure in the knowledge that she 'd never again have to see that self-satisfied , patrician face . |
| 7 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 8 | If it had n't been for Josie , she would n't even have been aware of it . |
| 9 | I agree , she would not normally have expected the remainder to fall in and be useful to her , but of course if she had had children , it would have been valuable to them . ’ |
| 10 | He mused on how different his life would have been if he had met Viola when he was twenty-two , or rather someone like her , for she would not even have been a twinkle in her parents ' eyes at that stage . |
| 11 | At first Cathy was miserable , because she would not now have anyone to play with , but she soon forgot him . |
| 12 | Once , she would not only have poured his coffee for him , she would have spooned in the sugar and stirred it for him , too . |
| 13 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 14 | As a penance , she became a hangman , although I would have thought she would more likely have become a candidate for hanging . |
| 15 | He had already consumed more than one bottle of wine on his own , Alyssia managing to sip so slowly through her one glass that she was still stone-cold sober , and fully aware that at this rate her lift home would be out of the question and that she would more likely have to get a taxi . |
| 16 | Tonight she would far rather have been getting on with a hundred and one other things , but conscience had dictated that she must get the books finished first . |
| 17 | He expresses the opinion that had Miss Thomas arrived at hospital before 1.32 a.m. she would almost certainly have been saved . |
| 18 | " She would almost certainly have lost it anyway . " |
| 19 | She would much rather have paid . |
| 20 | She felt as though someone had dumped an enormous casket of jewels in her lap , and pleasurable though that was , she knew that in her heart she would much rather have her great-aunt alive , and the casket of treasure at some much later time in her own life . |
| 21 | First , the original client shows up on a plane of existence to which she would never normally have access . |
| 22 | She would never again have so much rapt attention focused upon her , and she stood silent , until one lady , younger than most of those present , started to rummage in her handbag for a cigarette . |
| 23 | When she had fled Ireland , Katherine Lundy had sworn she would never again have anything to do with the country . |