Example sentences of "n't think it [modal v] have " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You do n't think it might have been better to let her have her say out , ’ suggested Desmond , ‘ and get it off her chest ? |
2 | I do n't think it would 've bothered us when it was spitting and spotting if we 'd actually been out there , would it , it 's just setting off in it . |
3 | I do n't think it would have done Miss Huntley a lot of good financially though , given that Angela was only twenty-nine and actuarially good for another forty years . ’ |
4 | ‘ I do n't think it would have occurred to her to want to die , ’ I said . |
5 | We had coal to carry from the top pasture by the road where the coalman used to leave it , and I do n't think it would have been possible but for that snow bridge . |
6 | " Hindsight is always easy , but I do n't think it would have worked , There would have been more bloodshed , more killing , but of the people in the streets , not of the people responsible , My husband did n't want bloodshed . " |
7 | If you 'd had all people come in and try to bring in new ideas on to an old system , I do n't think it would have worked . |
8 | Well , we feel that there 's it 's obviously quite a lot of points that are , are very good in the report , but we really feel that it 's concentrated very much on the administration of pension schemes , rather than security and I think that whilst if everything that , everyone of his recommendations had been law , I think it would have made it more difficult for Maxwell , but I do n't think it would have made in impossible for Maxwell and I think that what th what we see the problem is , is that in many ways the , the Maxwell problem was brought about by two major , major factors I think . |
9 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |
10 | I think he got out but I do n't think it would have been easy , there 's that time this morning . |
11 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
12 | OK , that 's an isolated episode , but had a feminist film crew gone out to make a documentary about wife battering I do n't think it could have been done more successfully . |
13 | ‘ I know what they 're saying , but you do n't think it could have happened , do you ? ’ |
14 | ‘ Mr Marr was certainly killed by someone in the sense that his neck was broken and the doctor does n't think it could have been accidental . |
15 | You do n't think it could have been an accident , reversing into you like that ? ’ |
16 | I do n't think it could have worked out better if we had written the ending ourselves . |
17 | You do n't think it could have been the lady of the house 's dress shortened for a maid |
18 | Bob , from Bolton , added : ‘ I do n't think it should have gone ahead . |
19 | I do n't think it should have been guillotined . |