Example sentences of "would [not/n't] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would not have gone if they were . |
| 2 | You would not have gone to them with a theory of the death of Jesus — you would have gone to them with great wonder saying : ‘ It is incredible , but our Lord is alive . |
| 3 | But there is a solution — otherwise Helen would not have gone on to experience a triumphant life . |
| 4 | ‘ If the race had been held in any other country I probably would not have gone , but I love racing in Japan . |
| 5 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 6 | They are convinced she would not have gone with anyone willingly . |
| 7 | ‘ I would not have gone in on my own , ’ he admitted , ‘ but I think that we might go again . |
| 8 | According to Mrs Baldwin , whose account was more immediate , the words were : ‘ Sir , this is a very grave decision and I am deeply grieved ’ ; but the significant difference is that she adds : ‘ and he went on to tell him that according to some legal opinion the divorce ought not to have been granted , that there were certain aspects of it that in any ordinary case would not have gone through . ’ |
| 9 | He would not have gone to Munich himself , he said , but he praised Chamberlain 's courage for acting differently . |
| 10 | Had B lost on the question of law in the Court of Appeal , it is practically inconceivable that the court would not have gone on to deal with the remaining points of appeal . |
| 11 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 12 | She would not have gone to bed and she knew it . |
| 13 | ‘ He would not have gone ! ’ |
| 14 | If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent . |
| 15 | The letter was prepared but would not have gone out until the land had been seen . |
| 16 | If she had not met the man at that particular moment , she would not have gone out to the highway and she would not have met Flynn . |
| 17 | Emancipated as she considered herself , Zeinab would not have gone up to them alone . |
| 18 | The conditions of the moral economy have been met , okay the landlords have been forced to if one accepted that was the way in which the peasants saw the world they would not have gone beyond that . |
| 19 | Erm they would not have gone through the same sort of occupation . |
| 20 | It would not have gone unnoticed . ’ |
| 21 | While such behaviour can not be condoned , an occasional show of controlled passion from England 's bowlers would not have gone amiss on the same ground when Australia were winning the first Test . |
| 22 | There 's a lot of people who er do n't , who would not have gone to the bother of going into the shop and buying a one pound or two pound or four pound |
| 23 | But even if Patrick Milligan had known the size of ‘ Buck ’ O'Hara 's munificence , he would not have raised any objections . |
| 24 | But revision would not have saved him from his misunderstandings , his reluctance to think , his complete lack of biological imagination . |
| 25 | If the law had been tougher then perhaps Clarke would not have reoffended , she said . |
| 26 | The neutrinos and antineutrinos , however , would not have annihilated with each other , because these particles interact with themselves and with other particles only very weakly . |
| 27 | From the very few interviews we conducted we were given to understand that the birth parents would not have opposed adoption if the links could be maintained ( Lambert et al . , |
| 28 | A hurricane would not have dislodged those styles . |
| 29 | And I , I , I , I , I , I would not have endeavoured to persuade you that this was going to be the land reform document that was , that this is it . |
| 30 | Sometimes , for example , a factor which is identified as the causal antecedent of an effect may be so interlinked with numerous other conditions that , while it is true that if that factor had not been present the effect would not have existed either , it is hardly illuminating . |