Example sentences of "she would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hope her mum was n't listening — no , she would 've gone into the kitchen to cook poor Bina a nice meal . |
| 2 | And I mean , when , when that man was in her house do n't you think she would 've changed the locks or something ? |
| 3 | . She would have to lean over . |
| 4 | She did not know how many miles or minutes she would have to drive before she left Ayling farmlands behind too . |
| 5 | Herbs in rough places , juniper , rosemary and thyme , which she would have named but not identified , oregano which she could not even have named . |
| 6 | She felt she would have to attend those . |
| 7 | ‘ She would have wanted to continue , yes . |
| 8 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 9 | Since Leapor , according to Freemantle , destroyed much of her juvenilia , it is possible she would have wanted to exercise similar judgement over the publication of her two volumes . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure she would have wanted children too . |
| 11 | She helped me as well and when I saw you were ill I did for you what she would have wanted me to do . ’ |
| 12 | And Arabella knew she was pregnant — she would have wanted to take care . |
| 13 | If she 'd loved you , she would have wanted to make it work . ’ |
| 14 | She were up sick all night , but I do n't think she , she would have wanted to go anyway . |
| 15 | She had been Kettering 's wife , the letter was hers and sometime , perhaps , she would have to open it . |
| 16 | If Mitzi had been sitting on the lilac branch with the squirrel yesterday ( and at this point her thoughts brought a smile to Elisabeth 's face ) , she would have overheard much to have kept her mind and tongue engaged . … |
| 17 | If she was n't being paid by his rich over indulgent parents , she would have punished him there and then . |
| 18 | Penelope 's way home took her along St Basil 's Terrace , or if it had not done she would have arranged her journey to include it , even if it had meant a slight detour . |
| 19 | At any other time she would have recognised the bitter note of personal experience in his voice , but all she wanted at that moment was to flee before her worst fears were realised . |
| 20 | If it had been Everthorpe , she would have dismissed this performance as a clumsy pass , but Wilcox seemed teased by some genuine memory . |
| 21 | Had Mary been told that her knowledge of the countryside was indeed ‘ knowledge ’ , she would have dismissed the tribute as , at best , a taunting flattery . |
| 22 | Had she tried to do so , she would have discovered what her predecessors had known well : that ruling this unusual little kingdom was not an infinitely inferior business to ruling France or England . |
| 23 | I was n't sure if it was unethical , but I was only telling her what she would have discovered when she visits tonight with Alan . ’ |
| 24 | Realising this , Lydia decided that she would have to aspire to the other . |
| 25 | She would have grown up with Marguerite 's calm influence around her ; she would have been more French than English . |
| 26 | She would have pushed past anything , a snake , a Rottweiler , a sabre-toothed tiger . |
| 27 | Had she embarked on an evening swim instead , she would have achieved all these advantages in helping her to keep to her diet : |
| 28 | I find on the balance of probabilities that if she did not achieve the necessary results for entry to college in the Summer of nineteen eighty seven , she would have achieved such grades by using the year Summer nineteen eighty seven to Summer nineteen eighty eight to re-site whatever was necessary . |
| 29 | Her heart emptied itself out , you could have tolled her and she would have sounded hollow and cracked . |
| 30 | She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed , there was not way around that . |