Example sentences of "n't have [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The taxi driver would n't have turned up if he had n't read about you in the paper . |
| 2 | She could n't have moved away if her life depended on it . |
| 3 | The sales rep should n't have called on because that 's , that 's a |
| 4 | ‘ That 's so 's you do n't have to go outside if you wants to go to the toilet , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | Then sit back , relax , and just take it easy , you wo n't have to go out when it 's all wet and breezy . |
| 6 | He 'll have a good Well you do n't have to date more than one guy . |
| 7 | Sunk in introspective misery , Virginia could n't have said later if it was wet or dry , day or night , winter or summer . |
| 8 | ‘ I should n't have said so if I was n't . ’ |
| 9 | I arrived at the station in good time for the train but I did n't have to wait more than three or four minutes and I was in London at ten to eleven . |
| 10 | ‘ She would n't have gone just because H.B. told her off . |
| 11 | There was no need to go biting Hawkbit : he could n't have gone back if he 'd tried . |
| 12 | ‘ They could n't have cared less if the whole of manufacturing industry had disappeared , ’ says Weir 's Ron Garrick . |
| 13 | She moved a little but I could n't have cared less if she awoke . |
| 14 | Personally I could n't have cared less if we had n't caught a single rabbit . |
| 15 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 16 | Sorrel could n't have made more than a grand so far that morning . |
| 17 | Oh gosh , you would n't have done better than that , that 's for sure . |
| 18 | or a talk , well she does n't have to rush home cos there 's no one there like |
| 19 | You would n't have spoken so if he 'd been alive , ’ Miss Phoebe protested . |
| 20 | I would n't have opened up if I 'd known ; they 're a thieving bunch and they usually work in pairs . |
| 21 | As I told my faithful readers last week , this particular old gent was transported by an extremely uncomfortable magic carpet ( B.A. steerage , Apex ticket , with all the delights of plastic food and stewardesses trained by the Obergrüppenführer at Heathrow ) to Chiantishire , that old-established suburb of Wimbledon , which ca n't have changed much since Britannia ruled the waves and wogs stopped at Calais . |
| 22 | Perhaps I could have freeclimbed it , but the problem was that I could n't predict the pockets and I would n't have found out until it was too late to avoid a monster fall . |
| 23 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 24 | And this time I did n't have to walk on because I was already installed on the sofa when the show began . |
| 25 | ‘ When you walk through a storm hold your head up high ’ AS the song says , Graeme Souness wo n't have to walk alone when he 's backed by the experience of Roy Evans and Ronnie Moran . |
| 26 | ‘ You would n't have thought so if you 'd heard him shouting after me as I ran away , ’ Sarah said . |
| 27 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 28 | In prison he did n't have to worry about where his next meal was coming from . |
| 29 | Yes , there 's the relief of knowing you do n't have to worry about where the next question is coming from , but that 's simply replaced by the worry of where the first answer is coming from . |
| 30 | Do n't have to mess about when we get in . |