Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [vb pp] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Material must have been impregnated with the liquid and it would not have helped put the fire out . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If it had been they might not have dared penetrate it very far . |
| 5 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
| 6 | They would n't have dared lay down conditions like that to Adolph . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |