Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I admit I did not think they would do that . ’ |
| 2 | The children were terrified when the flood happened and I just do not think they would want to come back . ’ |
| 3 | Nutty did not think they would win . |
| 4 | Saddam is now more reliant than ever on other clans , which do not think they would survive his overthrow . |
| 5 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 6 | We believe it is important that we participate fully in all these discussions as we think we have an important contribution to make from the substantial experience that we have , and I do not think you would find it acceptable for JARs to be binding on UK industry without us being in on every stage of their development . |
| 7 | Like Ulysses , I had , by my standards then , made un beau voyage , but I did not think it would result in my being content to stay at home thereafter . |
| 8 | They hope to sell the house as soon as possible but did not think it would go to a Vic Reeves fan . |
| 9 | The band could probably have signed to IRS but Hallin does not think it would have been the right move . |
| 10 | And no , she did not think it would jeopardise the marriage although he would , no doubt , be miffed at missing out on the latest freebie to the investing classes . |
| 11 | ‘ … I did not think it would come so quickly , ’ he told Tom Jones on 4 November . |
| 12 | I did not think I would stay with the band forever . |
| 13 | Do you not think I would know if he was still alive , especially if he was living here in Beirut ? ’ |
| 14 | Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there . |
| 15 | Remembering that he had sent Catherine Crane to see Angela Morgan 's employers , he decided to find out how she had got on ; late as it was he did not think she would have gone off duty without reporting to him . |
| 16 | She did not think she would like herself in it if she could see herself and she did not think she would like to see her face bright and thick with greasepaint . |
| 17 | She did not think she would like herself in it if she could see herself and she did not think she would like to see her face bright and thick with greasepaint . |
| 18 | But Riven did not think he would sleep again that night . |
| 19 | She did not think he would like to hear from her , or possibly even to think about her . |
| 20 | I did not think He would mind this , especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice . |
| 21 | With regard to Simon , I do not think he would have a parallel . |
| 22 | I really do not think he would understand . ’ |
| 23 | But he did not make what would have been his first competitive appearance for several years . |
| 24 | She had undertaken to contact him by the end of next week to report what progress she had made and he did not doubt she would do so , for she was a woman of her word . |
| 25 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 26 | They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death . |
| 27 | Otherwise I would have been sent back to my country and I do not know what would have happened to us . ’ |
| 28 | If Uncle had n't been there to support me I do not know what would have become of me . |
| 29 | ‘ I told the IFA that if we got to the World Cup finals and they wanted me to stay on I would and if we did not qualify I would stand down , ’ says Bingham . |
| 30 | Mswati did not specify who would decide on the incorporation of the Vusela-2 recommendations into a new constitution , neither did he give a new date for elections , which had been due in November , although he said on Oct. 26 that they would be held in the first half of 1993 . |