Example sentences of "[pron] would not [verb] done [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Oh , Mrs Dinah , I would not have done so , but it 's the poor children .
2 And it showed in her own tone when , ‘ Had you telephoned last night you would not have done so , ’ she replied coolly , if not a shade haughtily .
3 We would not have done so had the fee been £600 .
4 As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ .
5 They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings .
6 It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary .
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