Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something I do n't understand turned her into a neurotic depressed agoraphobic . |
| 2 | This meant that loyalty forbade her to tell Philip — who would n't have believed her in any case . |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't have believed anyone in the world could eat the whole of a cake that size . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I would n't have believed it of Lavinia . |
| 5 | I could n't have stopped him with an anti-tank gun . |
| 6 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 7 | ‘ I told him I did and he gave me a look which suggested that I should n't have kept it from him ! ’ |
| 8 | I would n't have written one like that when I was at school . |
| 9 | ‘ That is , if it was a row , not a sparring match that would n't have worried her at all . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you should n't have grabbed me like that , ’ she said crossly . |
| 11 | and would n't have touched it with a barge pole |
| 12 | So it would n't have struck anybody in nineteen thirteen as in any way dated . |
| 13 | ‘ It would n't have killed him to be here for once . ’ |
| 14 | I certainly would n't have guessed it from the way you 've been behaving . |
| 15 | We would n't have wanted him to be on anyone else 's . ’ |
| 16 | I would n't have wanted him to . |
| 17 | His hat remained in the hall ; his photograph in the silver-plated frame , polished twice a week , presided over the sitting room ; his memory was invoked , especially during Peter 's teens , in sentences that began with the ominous words , ‘ I know for a fact that your father would n't have wanted you to … . ’ |
| 18 | She would n't have wanted you to be miserable . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm not saying he would n't have become one without MainMan , but when you talk about MainMan , you have to be so definite — which part of MainMan and when . |
| 20 | Er and in fact er I would say that had you become recognized as part of management , our members would n't have tolerated you as a shop steward . |
| 21 | ‘ I should n't have asked you for the extra two-fifty mils . ’ |
| 22 | Lucy would n't have staked anything on it , but he did n't appear to know that Christine was dead . |
| 23 | She could n't have said nothing to our if she did I should have thought well alright our nan said I must bloody go up but she did n't come up Sunday . |
| 24 | I 'm sure no one else has and Mum wo n't have said anything about it , even to Dad . |
| 25 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 26 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 27 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , we would n't have missed it for anything ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for anything . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |