Example sentences of "would not [verb] [vb pp] me [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
2 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
3 | Dorcas would n't have brought me in here if he knew there was a monster about to bite me . |
4 | ‘ A very large beetle ’ , she will say , as if she would n't have bothered me about a smaller one ; or ‘ The steps were slippery ’ ; or merely ( which strikes me as cryptic to the point of tautology ) , ‘ Something nasty ’ . |
5 | Oh no he would n't have had me in any case . |