Example sentences of "it would [not/n't] [vb infin] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 2 | They 'll hardly expect separate cards from the two of us , though since you 're likely to be sending them one it would n't hurt to add my name to yours . |
| 3 | It would n't do to upset Molly . |
| 4 | No , it would n't do to preen myself unduly . |
| 5 | It would n't do to risk triggering them again . |
| 6 | It would n't do to lose that , not after she 'd come all this way to deliver it , and whether she stayed here or not , tomorrow she would begin her enquiries . |
| 7 | Robbie says : ‘ Any problems we do have , we sit down and sort them out straight away because we 're in each others pockets all day and every day and it would n't do to fall out badly . ’ |
| 8 | Unequivocal or not , it would n't do to open the door in the altogether — though with any luck , that would be the next step … |
| 9 | She had been neglected and he ached because of it , but it would n't do to let her know that . |
| 10 | It would n't do to let him see her relief and gratitude . |
| 11 | It would n't do to get in their line of flight : you 'd be sure to get stung . |
| 12 | She frowned slightly ; it would n't do to have letters like this arriving here , she would make arrangements today for a discreet postal address . |
| 13 | When one has been used to the nearest neighbours being several fields away , it would n't do to have someone else 's door or window overlooking every part of the house . |
| 14 | Not much , she suspected , and it would n't do to reveal what she knew . |
| 15 | ‘ It would n't do to drop them baskets of shingle down in our hold ! ’ he say . |
| 16 | It would n't do to run out of flour on day five . |
| 17 | It would n't do to cry in front of him . |
| 18 | Or perhaps he did ; they were clever , and it would n't do to underestimate them . |
| 19 | You seem to reinhabit a popular form , the family album , and bring to it a militant anarchy it would n't appear to possess . |
| 20 | ‘ If you made an incredible blunder it would n't seem to worry anybody as long as it is recorded … |
| 21 | Aye pipe you might get passed with it would n't like to see |
| 22 | The unifying factor was Ho Chi Minh , acting as agent of the Comintern , and while it would not manage to suppress its nationalist tendencies indefinitely it was for the moment clearly identified with the Vietnamese working class . |
| 23 | It would not do to ask her to drive back to Antibes that evening . |
| 24 | It would not do to exalt a figure who had been executed by the Romans for crimes against the Empire . |
| 25 | It was no part of Owen 's plan to let his whole company lurk there , now that they were compromised ; in case of close inquiry that would have been all too clear an indication of Llewelyn 's unofficial complicity in the enterprise , and however little doubt Isambard himself might have on that head , it would not do to let it be established and admitted . |
| 26 | It was some way from the lodging , and Paul 's attentions still made walking difficult ; it would not do to arrive dishevelled and swaying , and she had to use some of Mrs Gracie 's money on a cab . |
| 27 | It would not do to forget something so interesting . |
| 28 | It would not do to rush about blindly elsewhere . |
| 29 | It would not do to deify a rebel against Rome . |
| 30 | It would not do to have Miss Blagden imagine she bore any grudge . |