Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [vb pp] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This large implication is said to be justified because Parliament must have intended to preserve the long-standing immunity against questioning after charge , and can not have intended to create a régime which would ‘ make a mockery of ’ ( A. v. H.M. |
| 2 | Zuwaya said they would not have wanted to win an election that way ; and some Magharba — admittedly few , the majority being unquestioningly jubilant — said that just ends had been achieved by improper means . |
| 3 | Would I or would I not have liked to inherit an estate , even one of modest dimensions ? |
| 4 | Even if I had had pencil and paper on me , I would not have cared to leave a note where someone else might see it first . |
| 5 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 6 | Crucifixion was a penalty reserved for transgressions against Roman law , and Rome would not have bothered to crucify a man preaching a purely spiritual message , or a message of peace . |
| 7 | Rather than railing against American policy in Vietnam in 1966 – 67 , might he not have attempted to mediate a solution to the conflict ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 10 | The boots looked very much too big , but she appreciated that he would n't have liked to lend a pair of Laura 's . |
| 11 | ‘ Ah , but it ca n't be very evident or I would n't have had to spend an hour and half in the X-ray Department and they would n't have had to take a Complete album of me . ’ |
| 12 | I only said that to annoy her as Fenella was leaning over the staircase banister to fix some tinsel with double-sided tape and one more inch and she need n't have bothered wearing a skirt at all . |