Example sentences of "[not/n't] have dare " in BNC.
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1 | Tim Reagan , who would not have dared to give his French wife as little time as Claudia Yeo got , murmured that this was of course important and good luck to them , indeed . |
2 | There is more to running a boarding house than ever you would think Minnie and hardest of all is the impossibility of finding reliable and trustworthy staff who are not forever thinking of themselves first in a way we would not have dared . |
3 | In my father 's day they would not have dared even to think like that ! |
4 | 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 . |
5 | He would not have dared to take the decision alone to order his troops to open fire on the ANC marchers massing on his borders . |
6 | I found myself questioning many of their beliefs in a way that I would not have dared to do at the beginning of the study ; I could question them in their own terms and in doing so , test the boundaries of their beliefs . |
7 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
8 | If it had been they might not have dared penetrate it very far . |
9 | She was about to risk departing for an early lunch , a move which she would not have dared to make if Miss Coldharbour had been in the office , but Julia gathered she was out for the morning and not expected in until two fifteen . |
10 | Without this ambition she probably would not have dared to paint her allegorical decorations , such as ‘ The Zone of Love ’ ( c.1930 ) and ‘ The Zone of hate ’ ( 1914–15 ) at the Tate Gallery , which are not only large in size but in concept too . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Lots more , things Benny would n't have dared to ask . |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | ‘ And do n't forget , I was by then dominated by my aunt to such an extent that I would n't have dared . |
15 | They would n't have dared lay down conditions like that to Adolph . ’ |
16 | ‘ I would n't have dared to be late , ’ she flung back over her shoulder , hoping he recognised the sarcasm in her tone . |
17 | But even he would n't have dared to dream up this kind of swansong to his long football life . |
18 | His closeness gave her comfort , and she knew she would n't have dared to venture here alone — not even to see a thousand kiwis . |
19 | It shows how safe they feel ; six months ago they would n't have dared … |
20 | Even if he had wanted to try unmasking me , he would n't have dared . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | They would n't have dared . |
23 | Parveen 's colleagues say they would n't have dared to retaliate , although they can understand what drove her to do so . |