Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] it would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I promised Fand I 'd bring her Undry , she thought ; but even Fand said she did n't think it would do any good … and there 's no point thinking about it because I just ca n't . |
| 32 | But I do n't think it would do me any harm to develop some more organizational skills because mos most jobs require them . |
| 33 | I do n't think it would do any good to go on talking . ’ |
| 34 | And I do n't think it would do any good for me on this programme , or any of my colleagues , and of course the media will be now all over the place trying to achieve this . |
| 35 | Did n't do , did n't think it would do you any good did we ? |
| 36 | A family simulating post strike conditions in an improvised shelter was asked how it thought it might cope with diarrhoea and vomiting and , understandably , did n't think it would cope very well . |
| 37 | You 're too big now , more 's the pity — and , in any case , I do n't think it would answer at the moment . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ Do n't think it would make any difference . ’ |
| 39 | I do n't think it would make any difference . |
| 40 | But Bob said to me where I bought it from , he said I do n't think it would survive the winter because it comes from the Scilly Isles which is warmer . |
| 41 | I tried your mobile as well but I did n't think it would work up there in the mountains and sure enough all I got was the recording saying try again later . ’ |
| 42 | I did n't think it would work . |
| 43 | Well it looks like an arrow 's gone through it so I do n't think it would work . |
| 44 | I really did n't think it would win . |
| 45 | ‘ Some people told me I should have told the selectors to shove it and play for my club instead , but I thought if I kept quiet and plugged away I would get my chance — but I did n't think it would come this season , ’ Andrew said . |
| 46 | It appealed to me , but I did n't think it would appeal to Simon Bates . |
| 47 | No I do n't think it would cause us er any real problems , we 're talking about er an increase of about five hectares , my understanding , er I think that could be accommodated er in line with what we already intend to do erm in the local plan anyway . |
| 48 | I do n't think it would get any better . |
| 49 | I do n't think it would have done Miss Huntley a lot of good financially though , given that Angela was only twenty-nine and actuarially good for another forty years . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ I do n't think it would have occurred to her to want to die , ’ I said . |
| 51 | We had coal to carry from the top pasture by the road where the coalman used to leave it , and I do n't think it would have been possible but for that snow bridge . |
| 52 | " Hindsight is always easy , but I do n't think it would have worked , There would have been more bloodshed , more killing , but of the people in the streets , not of the people responsible , My husband did n't want bloodshed . " |
| 53 | If you 'd had all people come in and try to bring in new ideas on to an old system , I do n't think it would have worked . |
| 54 | Well , we feel that there 's it 's obviously quite a lot of points that are , are very good in the report , but we really feel that it 's concentrated very much on the administration of pension schemes , rather than security and I think that whilst if everything that , everyone of his recommendations had been law , I think it would have made it more difficult for Maxwell , but I do n't think it would have made in impossible for Maxwell and I think that what th what we see the problem is , is that in many ways the , the Maxwell problem was brought about by two major , major factors I think . |
| 55 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |
| 56 | I think he got out but I do n't think it would have been easy , there 's that time this morning . |
| 57 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 58 | " Even though Benin is a tiny country , I do n't think it would like to have new borders , " he said on his departure on June 26 . |
| 59 | ‘ That song had so many lyrics and different types of music in there , that I did n't think it 'd go the distance . |
| 60 | Christ , I 'd go AABB if I did n't think it 'd tank the final couplet . |