Example sentences of "would not have [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But revision would not have saved him from his misunderstandings , his reluctance to think , his complete lack of biological imagination . |
| 2 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 3 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 4 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 5 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 6 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 7 | It seemed they could have everything merely because they were boys , they would not have to sacrifice anything for anything else . |
| 8 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 9 | Do I take it Councillor that they would not have received it without your visit ? |
| 10 | In the normal way I would not have followed him into the gunsmith 's , a place of such absolute masculinity , smelling of game and metal , ringing with men 's talk . |
| 11 | For a start Albert the Thief would not have made it through the membership committee . |
| 12 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 13 | Agreement on this suggestion would bring the meeting to a close , and most of those present would not have to do anything at all about the wretched book . |
| 14 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 15 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 16 | Were he to appear now , in the moonlit room , Chant would not have accused him of negligence , but made proper obeisances and been glad that his inspiration had returned . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , one would not have wished her to be miserable . |
| 18 | My friend , the student , could not have begun to agree to that , and of course the taxi driver would not have allowed him to . |
| 19 | But sometimes the expenditure will result in the plaintiff acquiring an asset of a type that he would have required even if he had not been disabled , although he would not have required one with the special attributes of the asset in question . |
| 20 | The court was influenced by evidence pointing to the fact that the defendants had been negligent and it was stated that had steps been taken to mitigate the nuisance , the Council would not have found itself in the position it was now in . |
| 21 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 22 | She is a cold , unfeeling and unresponsive woman : she must be , or Hugo would not have left her for me . |
| 23 | The haciendas , the castles and the oast-houses would not have suited her at all . |
| 24 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 25 | Julian , of course , would not have described herself as a prophet , because like all monotheists at this date , she believed that God 's revelation was complete and that the day of prophecy was therefore over . |
| 26 | He would not have put it past her to make a kind of bargain on that basis . |
| 27 | Orwell would not have put it like that . |
| 28 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 29 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 30 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |