Example sentences of "i would n't have [be] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If I 'd done it then , perhaps I would n't have been fit to go to the Olympics and worlds , and I 'd hate to be sitting here now thinking I could have won .
2 I would n't have been a doctor , ’ he shivered with tiredness , ill at ease by the very suggestion of a shape other than his own .
3 ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning .
4 If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground .
5 Obviously I felt for him , I would n't have been too delighted if our positions had been reversed ; and they could so easily have been .
6 Only a few weeks ago I was in such a fog , I would n't have been able to write any of this .
7 I would n't have been able to see that gateway , so I ca n't say whether she was there or not , at five . ’
8 With so little fat in the diet I would n't have been surprised to receive reports of dryness , but I had no reason to worry .
9 ‘ If I had , I would n't have been an actor .
10 Even then I knew in a way that despair underlay my behaviour , but I would n't have been able to take the consequences of its admission .
11 If I had filled a tanker I would n't have been prosecuted . ’
12 I would n't have been able to see you . ’
13 I would n't have been the first guy he 'd ever seen at that hour .
14 But I did n't go to the altar ; to be honest it was n't for lack of offers , but because they always seemed to come from people I would n't have been caught dead at an altar with .
15 I mean , without him in the back I would n't have been able to do it , but I always tell everybody I was the carer .
16 If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone .
17 I would n't have been able to forget it , if you had . ’
18 If it had n't have been for her I would n't have been taking so many exams .
19 I kind of wished I 'd sat behind Verity ; I would n't have seen so much of her — not even a hint of that slim , smooth face , frowning in concentration as she barrelled the big black Beemer towards the next corner — but I would n't have been able to see the speedometer , either .
20 ‘ If you loved Ruth I would n't have been able to — I would n't have looked after Ruth as I have . ’
21 I would n't have been .
22 I said two to three years , I do n't deny it , but I would n't have been spending every minute of that time working to pay off what I owed you .
23 ‘ And if I had known , even just that you were free to love me if I could persuade you to , I would n't have been so — ’ Breaking off , Luke was once again silent for several seconds .
24 I would n't have been much competition by the side of sexy George , but still , a man has his pride .
25 But I As I say I were young and I would n't have been paying particular attention .
26 A common example was an auxiliary verb sequence , such as I would n't have been able to go , which was heard as a single syllabic beat , approximately shown here as I wudnbinabluh go .
27 ‘ If you 'd really wanted to hurt me , you 'd have let Ash go ahead with the publicity , would have backed him up , and I would n't have been able to deny it because it was all based on the truth , but a twisted truth !
28 And if I did , I would n't have been mad enough to tell him .
29 Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place .
30 Eventually I would n't have been able to stop myself . ’
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