Example sentences of "we would [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 " In the normal course of things we 'd not treat such a disappearance seriously . "
2 Without him , I dare say , we 'd not have secured M. Dupont 's agreement to come . ’
3 ‘ If the council houses had n't come , we 'd not have had electricity , water or the phone for all these years . ’
4 ‘ He may have done , we 'd not have heard him , ’ said the Leader , ‘ or thought he was shouting at the horses .
5 We would n't pay any attention to them if they started acting like stars , ’ laughs Leo .
6 We would n't start the layout until the headlines were in .
7 We would n't differentiate the terms we offer on diesel and petrol .
8 After the show he yelled at the researcher , ‘ You betrayed me — you broke our word , you promised we would n't talk about sex symbols , ’ and left the building .
9 Look I know we said we would n't talk about it and maybe it 's not fair cos I do n't know what state you 'll be in when you get this , but why do n't we just move to the country and have babies ?
10 I mean like with Kevin and Bill , we negotiated but even that we would n't talk about their professional work as a careers officer
11 Well we would n't tolerate this in the Guild .
12 We would n't go begging to British Nuclear Fuels , for example .
13 For the years we were taking speed , we would n't go into a pub or a crowded room .
14 ‘ Not all , ’ said Memet , ‘ but we would n't go back to the olive trees — not for ever , not unless we could take our money with us . ’
15 Erm we have put forward an alternative er mechanism for environmental discounts and er I can say by at this stage , by reference to the erm critique that has taken place of that of those environmental discounts in N Y eleven , that erm , while we would n't go along with making anywhere near the the additions that are suggested there , erm it may be that it would be sensible to make a further discount in respect of the heritage coast .
16 We would n't go in at a , I would n't go in at all , but Stuart 's mum used to live right opposite and she likes to go in occasionally cos she sees all her old friends , she do n't see them very often so she likes to go in and see all her old friends , otherwise I do n't
17 You know , and tha , we would n't go and have a look at a parcel machine system we 'd look at lovely potatoes , .
18 We would n't expect the County Council to be proceeding to approval of the plan , but merely an approval in principle or an approval of the concept .
19 Yeah well we would n't expect him to say anything else really .
20 Erm , and we had a a little meeting Margaret , Joan and I , just to go through the agenda for today , and we thought that , we th perhaps five was a better number , erm , because we thought Maisie would be on as she does the bookings , but we would n't expect you to do anything else , Maisie , yeah .
21 He says there is part of that site where investigations do indicate the water table is high — only perhaps half a metre below the surface and in that area we would n't regard burial as acceptable because of the potential risk of contaminating the ground water .
22 He says there is part of that site where investigations do indicate the water table is high — only perhaps half a metre below the surface and in that area we would n't regard burial as acceptable because of the potential risk of contaminating the ground water .
23 Every one of us , we would n't devote our time , our precious time serving in local government if we did n't believe in local government and did n't want to provide the best possible services to the people of this city .
24 But here , we would n't do that .
25 We 've always said that we would n't do that .
26 Now is you remember last time we said we would n't do this at the minute because we erm we 've got erm a
27 He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other .
28 I 'm glad you asked that erm yes we did , we did give it consideration er er we decided against it , because it would have meant er to declaring the dividend on Friday for technical reasons and announcing our results erm today and this could have been in danger of misleading er the market er because this lower results and we have an increased dividend and that was erm probably the main reason why we decided that we would n't do it er the slight increase in net dividend in fact should compensate erm and this is coincidence er er f fo for the increased A C T on the
29 No because we would n't do that anyway .
30 Do you remember when there used to always be some on the wall there when you cou we would n't walk down the stairs cos in case they got us .
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