Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hermione Lee is admirably judicious about all this , pointing out both that we have a perfect right to say things about a writer that we would not have said in their lifetime , and that ‘ to account for Cather 's fiction by reading it as an encoding of covert , even guilty sexuality is , I think , both patronising and narrow . ’ |
| 2 | All this about Fenna was entirely true , but she would not have said it , would not have known how to shape such sentences . |
| 3 | Robert would not have said that the fanlight was almost obliterated with bird droppings . |
| 4 | ( Though in fact she would not have said ‘ lumbered ’ , not because she was afraid to put forward an unpopular view , but because she was an honourable and exact woman . |
| 5 | Two years ago she would not have said ‘ an' all' , but , ‘ too ’ . |
| 6 | Dr Tariq would not have said that he liked the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council , but he admired him . |
| 7 | Had she done so she would not have said a word , would not have looked a word , would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs . |
| 8 | One mother claimed : ‘ She would not have said such a thing if she had been married . |
| 9 | She says ’ Had I been alone and not so near a phone box who is to say I would not have said yes . |
| 10 | Before Sunday I would not have said that . |
| 11 | I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much . |
| 12 | It must be possible , or the vet would n't have said it . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't have said sinister . |
| 14 | The uncle of 12-year-old Adele Thompson — killed by a joyrider in Toxteth , Liverpool — hit out : ‘ He would n't have said it if he had been through the heartache we have suffered . ’ |
| 15 | And I would n't have said anything . |
| 16 | ‘ I would n't have said a word , but yes , I noticed . ’ |
| 17 | V.W. Yes , I mean that 's something that when I first started I would n't have said , but I 've seen over the last six years changes in the governors and the role of the governors and I sense very much so that now they want Catholic appointments . |
| 18 | ‘ You would n't have said it if you did n't mean it . ’ |
| 19 | Well I do n't , I would n't have said |
| 20 | " And I would n't have said a word , ducky , if I had n't heard you phoning that doctor . " |
| 21 | ‘ I would n't have said she was seeing him . ’ |
| 22 | I would n't have said wrong , but not correct . |
| 23 | Well Firmin would n't have said fuck of course , but his tone was there . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't have said distressed … more preoccupied . |
| 25 | " Forty years ago we would n't have said that ! " |
| 26 | ‘ If I had n't seen you struggling with that dandelion I would n't have said you were the muddy-boots type . ’ |
| 27 | We gave a few outlines of schemes of work and bits and pieces of information , but I would n't have said that it caused any great feeling of self-analysis . |
| 28 | He certainly would n't have said two , why not ? |
| 29 | I would n't have said . |
| 30 | He was not going to get a bike because he would n't be able to reach the pedals , but I would n't have said anything even if I could have , because nobody expects people to tell the truth to women and , besides , that 's what friends are for , as they say . |