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 .
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