Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 2 | Not in those days , not for a good Catholic girl like Mary Moxton , who would only lapse so far , and abortion was a lot further . |
| 3 | Floristry comes cheaper , and I knew Gran 's money would only stretch so far . ’ |
| 4 | Even now , I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan ; after all , it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground . |
| 5 | Dhanraj began by stating unequivocally that she saw film-making as a tool for socio-political challenge ( she would not go so far as to say change ) and that documentary was best suited to this purpose . |
| 6 | I would not go so far , but this is a good place to start finding out about unfamiliar topics . |
| 7 | Loving does not cancel out such bad manners or excuse them , and she would not think so either … . |
| 8 | That this Second World War would not last so long as the First , and even that it might not be a war on such a world-scale , were legitimate presumptions at the time , and Eliot was firmly of the opinion that we should be thinking then and there of the world which would finally emerge . |
| 9 | He would not miss so plain a possibility , but he could and would refrain from entertaining and proceeding on it until more is known . |
| 10 | Plenty of people in Donegal , Cavan and Monaghan would be delighted , as they would not have so far to go to buy drinks , groceries and cigarettes . |
| 11 | If the vulnerable organic layers did not exist teeth would not rot so easily but then they would be brittle and would probably break early in life . |
| 12 | She swore to herself that when she grew up she would not wait so long between courses . |
| 13 | If only , he thought sometimes , Blanche would not worry so much about wasting time and let the minutes trickle like sand through her fingers . |
| 14 | He would mysteriously shake so badly sometimes that old-timers recommended a large brandy . |
| 15 | He had n't put pen to paper since the day before Martin died , and he doubted if he would ever do so again . |
| 16 | She thought about the Josephs , apparently guilty of an especially heartless and greedy crime , and wondered how they had got drugs into the United States and whether they would ever do so again . |
| 17 | But they would slither out again , and they would probably do so quite quickly . |
| 18 | you would n't think so apart from their regulars that 's all I can say |
| 19 | ‘ I hope that remark does n't imply that you would n't care so much if she was a nasty person . |
| 20 | Said he 'd bailed me out once and he would n't do so again , I could make my own way . |
| 21 | She had n't accepted then — and she was pretty certain that she would n't do so now — his dismissive claim that it was solely due to the pressure of business . |
| 22 | I wish it would n't go so fast ! ’ she thought — and at once the broomstick 's pace slowed . |
| 23 | I would n't go so far ( that would be to devalue all the peaks in the interim ) — but the single is stupendous . |
| 24 | I would n't go so far . ’ |
| 25 | Surely they would n't go so far as to break in ? |
| 26 | I would n't go so far as to say there 's no skill , because if you do have skill in identifying draws , then you 'll increase your chances of winning by using your skill in identifying those draws , but how much you win depends very heavily on how many draws there are and how many other people choose those same draws . |
| 27 | well if you can just put me mind at rest now and if they 'd say no I would n't worry so much then |
| 28 | ‘ People would n't act so fast , though . |
| 29 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |
| 30 | She would never do so again . |