Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had not guessed he would be and had postponed his visit till term ended in June . |
| 2 | Knowing Christopher , she has judged it right to leave him to make his own attempts , though had he not succeeded she would probably have joined him and discussed the solution with him . |
| 3 | He had not expected she would . |
| 4 | I you have not said it would not meet the Department of Transports criteria for financial support for example . |
| 5 | Penelope 's way home took her along St Basil 's Terrace , or if it had not done she would have arranged her journey to include it , even if it had meant a slight detour . |
| 6 | On the other hand , had he not thought they would be there , he would n't have gone into the building at all . |
| 7 | Taliesin had not thought it would be possible for the darkness surrounding the House to deepen , but it deepened in those minutes after Fael-Inis made his pronouncement . |
| 8 | Since his experience of captaincy was limited , he had not believed he would be appointed ; but he had had his hopes , and had thought a lot about the team 's problems . |
| 9 | She had not imagined she would ever dare say this aloud . |
| 10 | ‘ Had that not happened we would 've had a lot more people at the rally . |
| 11 | If the plaintiff had not paid he would not only have been subject to legal proceedings for recovery of the tax but would have been liable to forfeiture of his business until it had been paid . |
| 12 | She had n't guessed it would land her in the thick of a family feud . |
| 13 | She knew she was overdressed for the occasion but had n't realised it would make her look both predatory and incom-petently so , since one of the main adult sports at Chris 's school was trying to get that nice Major Maxim remarried . |
| 14 | If I had n't stopped you would have made love with me , and that is n't the action of a woman desperately in love with another man , is it ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
| 16 | Because of this , it was felt , it presented Anish Kapoor in a position of such seniority alongside all the other three that if he had n't won it would have been more embarrassing that if he did . |
| 17 | well we must wait on a bit , we 'll have to now , if she had n't phoned it would of been , you know something nice to think about wo n't it ? |
| 18 | And I expect if your father had n't died she 'd have had at least twenty children ! |
| 19 | She had n't thought she would understand what Fand meant ; but after only a moment the sense came to her that she was looking at a prisoner — at someone captive , helpless . |
| 20 | No , she had n't thought he would be ! |
| 21 | I had n't thought he 'd be all that bright at the bogeyman stuff . ’ |
| 22 | Ace had spoken of his intention to try and pull strings on her behalf , but she had n't thought he 'd have that much clout with a multi-national the size of IMP . |
| 23 | He explained that if the money was n't raised it would destroy confidence , and anyhow such an unusual move would be very close to breaking the rules about soliciting investment . |
| 24 | ‘ I reckon if you 'ad n't left you 'd 'ave bin a parlourmaid by now , ’ Ella Tomkin said . |
| 25 | If that had n't worked I 'd have tried something else , but , rather to my surprise , you snapped up the bait first time … ’ |
| 26 | If she had n't resisted he would no doubt have made sure Peter knew at once that she was n't to be trusted ! |
| 27 | Margaret had accepted his story of taking urgent samples across to Belfast ; it was true , but that had n't meant she 'd believe it . |
| 28 | If we had n't tried we 'd have split up anyway . |