Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as they walked into the dining room , which can accommodate up to 450 guests , their eyes could not have failed to take in the splendour of it all . |
| 2 | Mr McTear , 48 , claims that he would not have started smoking in the mid-1960s had there been the present-day health warnings . |
| 3 | As it happened , the Collector would not have minded agreeing with the Padre about the Exhibition . |
| 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 | Indeed , Bethurum Loomis argued that Wulfstan 's disillusion with Æthelred , and perhaps with Cnut too , can be traced in his work , stressing that he modified his views on royal sanctity , seems not to have wished to rely on the king 's ability to keep public order , and eventually stated that bishops should direct all affairs , both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 6 | I would n't have cared to live under the rule of Fagg myself , but I ca n't say it worried me that these people were getting short rations . |
| 7 | I always got the impression she would n't have minded slipping between the sheets with him , but I ca n't claim there was ever any real evidence she did . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 'd done your legal duty , my lad , we would n't have had to go through the bother of pulling you off the street , ’ said Malpass with a sickly smile . |