Example sentences of "would not [verb] done [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overlooked hood in the newspaper scanned by the parajournalist would not have done equally well , nor would the cudgel . |
| 2 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 3 | Brandy would not have done better . |
| 4 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 5 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , Mrs Dinah , I would not have done so , but it 's the poor children . |
| 7 | I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why . |
| 8 | Many of those who voted against the government would not have done so had they expected an election . |
| 9 | We would not have done so had the fee been £600 . |
| 10 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 11 | I had had no intention of seeking to intervene in the strike and would not have done so but for the ubiquitous activity of George Wigg . |
| 12 | He remembered now , though would not have done so otherwise . |
| 13 | She had consented to intercourse with him and would not have done so had she known of the disease , yet her consent was not vitiated by his omission to tell her of his bodily condition . |
| 14 | And it showed in her own tone when , ‘ Had you telephoned last night you would not have done so , ’ she replied coolly , if not a shade haughtily . |