Example sentences of "n't have mind " in BNC.

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1 Would n't have minded sipping pink gins aboard a cruiser myself , but the job 's got to be done and we have got plenty worth fighting for .
2 I would n't have minded but I could n't get it in the hole after that .
3 Philip thought he would n't have minded going to his school .
4 I would n't have minded him blind .
5 ‘ I would n't have minded being an actress , ’ she says , ‘ but I 'm happy with the shop . ’
6 After that implication that she was still in the prime of her fertile years , Mrs Strawson would n't have minded telling him anything .
7 I would n't have minded if I 'd had a bump on my head , a cross on it or a bullet through it .
8 She was no Harriet-Meredith would n't have minded betting a few men bought her champagne .
9 ‘ Well , I would n't have minded , but they just threw mine at me when we were kitted out .
10 It covered a large area , and I really would n't have minded leaving Nigel there , but the compost heap was what he wanted , and the compost heap was where he was going .
11 ‘ I know I should n't have minded , you 've a right to your own life , it 's just that — well , you never come up to London in the evenings , you 're always too busy .
12 For himself , he would n't have minded a posting ; in fact , he would have welcomed it , because there was another complication entering his life : vague , but nevertheless there .
13 They would n't have minded so much if 63-year-old Dave had picked the right offices .
14 But he admitted with a grin : ‘ If that was a trial run for Sunday I would n't have minded a bit more notice !
15 It 's all right , Stuart , I thought , I would n't have minded if you 'd left that till after I arrived .
16 In any other circumstances I would n't have minded going shopping with Oliver .
17 ‘ So you would n't have minded having one ? ’
18 He would n't have minded so much if there 'd been a rise somewhere along the line — a moment of triumph , no matter how brief — but he 'd gone from children 's programmes to women 's programmes to the Devil in one slow , unspectacular but continuous slide .
19 If it would have caught Meredith 's attention she would n't have minded a bone lodging in her gullet , but then there was always the risk he might think she was merely coughing — she could choke for nothing .
20 I would n't have minded that .
21 Would n't have minded if the driver had gone in for some stronger magic — the old Christianity did n't seem to be having much effect on his driving .
22 I would n't have minded looking like that five years ago , come to think of it , or even ten .
23 I would n't have minded turning her over myself . ’
24 I always got the impression she would n't have minded slipping between the sheets with him , but I ca n't claim there was ever any real evidence she did .
25 He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance .
26 She was still talking about the snake that lived under the water tank when Tom swung the wheel and purred rapidly up the hospital driveway , and if his face was still set in a grim frown and he did n't seem to be listening to her words at all , she should n't have minded , because the object of the exercise had been to entertain Faye , not him .
27 Why had he thought it necessary , she would n't have minded , surely he did n't think she was that sort of person .
28 The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room .
29 He could have flung fifty paper-strippers at them now and they would n't have minded .
30 ‘ I would n't have minded about the money .
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