Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the much-vaunted " Charity School Movement " of the early decades seems only to have helped stop a poor level becoming worse . |
| 2 | ‘ Material must have been impregnated with the liquid and it would not have helped put the fire out . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If it had been they might not have dared penetrate it very far . |
| 6 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
| 7 | Today oversupply has helped bring down London rents to bargain basement levels . |
| 8 | Possibly the widening class-consciousness of militant trade unionism within the Edwardian working class , especially considering the number of players from mining origins , may also have helped encourage this flurry of ‘ industrial ’ action . |
| 9 | They would n't have dared lay down conditions like that to Adolph . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Her fellow passenger 's action showed she had also lost her royal mystique and air of untouchability — after all , no one would previously have dared ask the future queen for an autograph . |
| 13 | In the United States , it is fair to say , these people have usurped the idea of animal welfare from the animal welfare societies that historically have helped police them . |
| 14 | She should never have let go — should never have cried so desperately in his arms . |
| 15 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 16 | He said things which he would never have dared say to the General 's face . |
| 17 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |