Example sentences of "[vb mod] dare [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since this affected the ruling family , no-one might dare oppose it . |
| 2 | As I say , I 'd guess not , but she never talks about it , and nobody 'd dare bring it up . |
| 3 | Now they 've got the bloody nerve to charge us half when we live there I do n't think she 'd dare say anything to me about it . |
| 4 | He had never dreamed that his enemy would dare show his face in the army , and Lord John 's presence seemed evidence to Sharpe of just how the cavalryman must despise him . |
| 5 | This desire that can not find its name ( though it would dare speak it , if it could ) is pleasurable . |
| 6 | Who would dare incur our displeasure ? |
| 7 | I doubt whether a girl would dare tell her parents , let alone take the matter to court . |
| 8 | Besides the fact that Mittwoch scuttles her own argument by citing examples such as No newspaper would dare publish his denial where " dare shows modal characteristics precisely in governing the bare infinitive … , yet it is governed by another modal " ( p. 128 ) , and the fact that treating to as a modal auxiliary is in itself highly implausible , this analysis simply begs the question of whether there is a semantic motivation behind the absence of to here . |
| 9 | Who would dare attack us here ? |
| 10 | Judge Smith formerly chairman of the Rules Committee was a man greatly feared by his colleagues , but no chairman would dare follow his example in the congress of today . |
| 11 | Catastrophism became a joke and no geologist would dare postulate anything that might be termed a " catastrophe " for fear of being laughed at or ( in recent years ) linked with a lunatic fringe of Velikovsky and Californian fundamentalists . |
| 12 | In regga a producer frequently utilises the same backing track for several different vocals , but only Steely & Clevie would dare let them all play at once on a dub , allowing several different melodies to fight it out for dominance of a different rhythm . |
| 13 | There is n't an inn or any other eating house come to that , which would dare close its doors against him or his guests . |
| 14 | She asked , knowing the importance of the question , knowing , too , that only she would dare ask it , ‘ Will you be very disappointed if you do n't get the job ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The strictest autonomy governs the ghetto ; no German would dare touch my prerogatives , and I shall never let any do so . ’ |
| 16 | It 's forty years old and will set you back five and a half thousand pounds — but for that you can be sure no-one will dare cut you up on the motorway . |
| 17 | Nobody will dare touch me . |