Example sentences of "would [not/n't] have [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She got out of trouble to win her pre-Arc race , the Prix Foy , but it would not have worried me if she was beaten then . |
| 2 | ‘ His jailers were certain he intended to have me killed , or they would not have treated me thus . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 4 | Many actors would not have accepted me — after all I 'd never made a film before . |
| 5 | Wild beasts would not have stopped me . ’ |
| 6 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 7 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 8 | ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’ |
| 9 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 10 | It would not have surprised me to hear him say that he had advised the Almighty strongly against the Flood and other similar claims , the foolishness of which was self-evident , but not to Him . |
| 11 | There was a sense of the primeval about the place , and it would not have surprised me unduly to see a pterodactyl alight clumsily , or a dinosaur emerge from behind the rocks . |
| 12 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 13 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 14 | A few years ago you would not have caught me talking about underground publishing ; I have too many bad memories from the Seventies . |
| 15 | ‘ Lady , if I 'd known I was dealing with a certifiable lunatic wild horses would n't have dragged me here . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You did n't believe me when I said I had n't distracted Simon and you would n't have believed me if I 'd told you it was your child I might be carrying , ’ she replied , her voice shaking a little despite all her efforts to project a calm image . |
| 17 | ‘ He would n't have asked me if he did n't think I could do it , ’ she had retorted . |
| 18 | ‘ Wild horses would n't have kept me away , my dear Angharad . ’ |
| 19 | A tank unit would n't have kept me away . |
| 20 | ‘ Bet you would n't have recognized me , ’ she said , sipping her drink and leaving a trail of creamy white on her lip gloss . |
| 21 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 22 | ‘ I know Suzanne would n't have wanted me to blame her or be angry either . ’ |
| 23 | And my Grandmother certainly would n't have wanted me going She had er her feet very firmly on the ground . |
| 24 | She would n't have liked me sleeping with him , but if you 're going to sleep with him , you get contraceptives . |
| 25 | Had my Pop passed me in the street , he would n't have recognised me . |
| 26 | You would n't have seen me , because that idiot was driving far too fast . |
| 27 | I think that if she had n't known us ; that I was a groom and Copper was pretty sensible , she would n't have given me the choice of trying to save him , especially as he was seventeen years old . |
| 28 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me that if I 'd come to you you would n't have sent me away with a flea in my ear ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ She would n't have shopped me ; and she never gave me the tape . |
| 30 | It would n't have entered me head , y'know what I mean . |