Example sentences of "have dared [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , it is said that Mr Benn [ = the Secretary of State for Industry ] has dared break a rather long departmental silence with a couple of speeches ( … ) , to tell how election pledges will be fulfilled and private industry is lining its pockets with state money with no strings attached . |
| 2 | But they have done what no American administration has dared do in living memory — set the scene for a proper debate . |
| 3 | ( The Times , 13 June 1974 : 25.4 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 104 ) ( " Mr Benn has dared do something he should have known better than to do , given Prime Minister Wilson 's present hostility towards any statement that might upset private industry . " ) |
| 4 | Although some Treasury ministers have hinted that economic recovery is in sight , no one on the Government benches has dared predict when unemployment will cease its remorseless rise . |
| 5 | Perhaps we should all start trying , since he is the only one who has dared raise his standard against her . |
| 6 | ( 61 ) That may be the first time in my life that a man has dared insult me . |
| 7 | She used to sit behind her desk looking very prim and proper , and er I do n't , I do n't quite honestly think we would 've dared say anything to her at all . |
| 8 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 9 | The Derby Mercury published on 12 December a description it would not have dared print a week earlier : ‘ They were dressed in dirty plaids and as dirty shirts , without breeches and some without shoes . |
| 10 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 11 | He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago . |
| 12 | They would n't have dared lay down conditions like that to Adolph . ’ |
| 13 | It is curious and yet inevitable that you , of all people , should have dared write a piece in the NewSS claiming to shed crocodile tears for the alleged disunity among , or between , the opportunistically ‘ revived ’ banners of the ARA and the ANL . |
| 14 | He stopped with the door handle in his hand and quietly said , ‘ Yes , I 'll come back some day when you are gone and I 'll find where you 've hidden the gun , for you would n't have dared take it outside this room , would you ? |
| 15 | The non-assertive character of the first three is quite obvious : the conditional clause leaves the actualization of dare up in the air in ( 31 ) ; ( 32 ) implies " she did n't dare ignore him any more than that " ; ( 33 ) is a sort of indignant rhetorical question implying that he should n't have dared take the native 's part against her . |
| 16 | He said things which he would never have dared say to the General 's face . |
| 17 | There was no way we would have dared attempt these routes had they sported their current designations then . |
| 18 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
| 19 | If it had been they might not have dared penetrate it very far . |
| 20 | Her fellow passenger 's action showed she had also lost her royal mystique and air of untouchability — after all , no one would previously have dared ask the future queen for an autograph . |
| 21 | I 'll be all sweet penitence and grief that I 've dared set my will against his . |
| 22 | It 's years since I 've dared have an orange yeah if I eat an orange , I 'd damn well |
| 23 | Jasper would have liked to yell and sing and shout , if he had dared lift up his head . |
| 24 | ( 63 ) Two months ago , I should have scouted as mad or drunk the man who had dared tell me the like . |
| 25 | They could be paraphrased by : ( 63 – ) If anyone had dared tell me the like two months ago , I would have scouted him as mad or drunk . |
| 26 | Yet there was also a genuine upsurge of religious feeling , of anger and hatred towards the infidels who had dared seize back the ‘ holy earth ’ so dearly bought with the blood of the First Crusade . |
| 27 | He was descended ( though not through the male line ) from the family that had built the ships for the old Fowey Gallants of fourteenth-century fame , whose piratical seamen who had dared disobey the Sovereign by plundering Frenchmen and had had their fleet confiscated and sent to Dartmouth for their pains . |
| 28 | He actually fired a public relations officer who had dared argue that the real sales figures were one or two percentage points short of the goal . |
| 29 | In Surere 's province , there had been many transgressions , despite the loss of privilege which was the only punishment he had dared impose , though there were rumours that in some cases he would have preferred to apply the death penalty . |
| 30 | For another ten years not a soul had dared enter it , until the snake-hunters steeled themselves to descend in pursuit of a python which had consumed a child in the dry season of 1969 . |