Example sentences of "[not/n't] have dare [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim Reagan , who would not have dared to give his French wife as little time as Claudia Yeo got , murmured that this was of course important and good luck to them , indeed . |
| 2 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 3 | He would not have dared to take the decision alone to order his troops to open fire on the ANC marchers massing on his borders . |
| 4 | I found myself questioning many of their beliefs in a way that I would not have dared to do at the beginning of the study ; I could question them in their own terms and in doing so , test the boundaries of their beliefs . |
| 5 | Without this ambition she probably would not have dared to paint her allegorical decorations , such as ‘ The Zone of Love ’ ( c.1930 ) and ‘ The Zone of hate ’ ( 1914–15 ) at the Tate Gallery , which are not only large in size but in concept too . |
| 6 | The Derby Mercury published on 12 December a description it would not have dared print a week earlier : ‘ They were dressed in dirty plaids and as dirty shirts , without breeches and some without shoes . |
| 7 | If it had been they might not have dared penetrate it very far . |
| 8 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
| 9 | She was about to risk departing for an early lunch , a move which she would not have dared to make if Miss Coldharbour had been in the office , but Julia gathered she was out for the morning and not expected in until two fifteen . |
| 10 | His closeness gave her comfort , and she knew she would n't have dared to venture here alone — not even to see a thousand kiwis . |
| 11 | Lots more , things Benny would n't have dared to ask . |
| 12 | But even he would n't have dared to dream up this kind of swansong to his long football life . |
| 13 | Parveen 's colleagues say they would n't have dared to retaliate , although they can understand what drove her to do so . |
| 14 | They would n't have dared lay down conditions like that to Adolph . ’ |
| 15 | He stopped with the door handle in his hand and quietly said , ‘ Yes , I 'll come back some day when you are gone and I 'll find where you 've hidden the gun , for you would n't have dared take it outside this room , would you ? |
| 16 | The non-assertive character of the first three is quite obvious : the conditional clause leaves the actualization of dare up in the air in ( 31 ) ; ( 32 ) implies " she did n't dare ignore him any more than that " ; ( 33 ) is a sort of indignant rhetorical question implying that he should n't have dared take the native 's part against her . |