Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] i would [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I did not think I would stay with the band forever .
2 Do you not think I would know if he was still alive , especially if he was living here in Beirut ? ’
3 Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there .
4 Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting .
5 ‘ I told the IFA that if we got to the World Cup finals and they wanted me to stay on I would and if we did not qualify I would stand down , ’ says Bingham .
6 If I felt compelled to hold that the taxpayer in this case could not recover I would share the no little regret expressed by my noble and learned friend , Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle .
7 I would get a better , I 'm not saying I 'd get a better shine than that .
8 I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open .
9 ‘ Did I not say I 'd get my answer from you , and none other ? ’
10 ‘ If I did n't joke I 'd cry . ’
11 If I had something important to say on television I do n't think I would choose a Sunday afternoon .
12 Now I 've used it elsewhere in the garden and I 've never really had any problem with it except it is inclined to make the water very alkaline because the chippings that are quite often used on a flat roof and they 've got a very high P H and therefore you 've got to be aware that the water that comes off is not likely to be soft it 's more likely to be fair fairly hard but for reasonably tough plants I do n't think I would waste it , especially in times of water shortage .
13 They are but not as I saw things at the time — I did n't think I would marry .
14 erm I , I erm , I am actually dead against this for various reasons , and I do n't think I would bring up all the reasons that I am , because some of them are not absolutely purely planning reasons , which should n't be aired at this meeting , but I do feel that the provision there for thirty six properties will create a traffic hazard , and access problems , which , which I feel will support this Council at the , the traffic authority after having done a sufficiently detailed survey , I think was the problem , was n't it ?
15 ‘ Well , no dear , I do n't think I would mistake you for a stook of corn .
16 ‘ I do n't think I would benefit .
17 ‘ But I do n't think I would fit into his scheme of things for next season .
18 I am really glad of it ; I do n't think I would want them to be there , just in case I lost .
19 I do n't think I would 've been married fifty eight years .
20 Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning .
21 I am unemployed , but even if I was working I do n't think I would lay out all the expense to travel to London .
22 I am unemployed , but even if I was working I do n't think I would lay out all the expense to travel to London .
23 However , I do n't think I would stop playing my Gibson ES175 to play that all the time .
24 So I put very little energy into my criminal case partly because I did n't think I would go to prison , and certainly not for more than a month or two .
25 I 've I would n't I do n't think I would go out if somebody said , Would you come and sing er at such and such a thing .
26 I I do n't think I would go .
27 I do n't think I would leave Scotland within the the near future because I love Iron Bru too much , and I would n't get in some other places or
28 I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask .
29 I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask .
30 I did n't think I would confess .
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