Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] would not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present time , it is very desperate , or I would not bother you . |
| 2 | I am discomposed , or I would not speak as I have . |
| 3 | Of course , I love the theatre or I would not go on doing it . ’ |
| 4 | Well , it was hardly intense , or I would not have forgotten it . |
| 5 | But yes , she has something or I would not have taken her . |
| 6 | ‘ I had intended to secure your favour , or I would not let you live for this insult . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Course I do or I would n't have bloody well asked yer , would I ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , but it ca n't be very evident or I would n't have had to spend an hour and half in the X-ray Department and they would n't have had to take a Complete album of me . ’ |
| 9 | Er or I would n't have left , I would have stayed on , I liked the people . |
| 10 | saying you 're not in a position to do that in the moment or you would n't want |
| 11 | Or you would n't ask Van Gogh to add more detail to a picture after looking at one of his works of art would you ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But you must have known that letter was going to arrive this morning , or you would n't have been round here , trying to snatch it away before I saw it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Or you would n't have come , ’ Luke supplied calmly . |
| 14 | There 's several chapters convincing you that your kid really needs a computer at home ( but you know that or you would n't have bought the book ! ) and there 's a danger of ending up convincing yourself that your offspring could become educationally subnormal unless you get a computer immediately . |
| 15 | ‘ That is not what I thought , ’ said Ellen , ‘ but it must have crossed your mind or you would n't have brought it up . ’ |
| 16 | I said ooh you 'll either find it really funny or you would n't find it funny at all but erm |
| 17 | L coming back to your other point I mean your saying you could not physically , or you would not wish to accommodate , let me put it that way , you would not wish to accommodate anything more than is now you 're you 're making provision for within the South Ryedale local plan |
| 18 | ‘ Now you know … you must know , or you would not have spoken to him so , the reason I am not your wife … and can never be so , Benedict . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You know I do not , ’ Siban said , ‘ or you would not dare ask . |
| 20 | She must be successful sometimes or she would n't make her living at it . ’ |
| 21 | Unless the manager represents a big artist , he or she would n't work with the record company 's senior directors . |
| 22 | ‘ I am in the pink , ’ said Dot , though she knew she was n't or she would n't have allowed herself to weep the day before . |
| 23 | And she must have loved Hywel , or she would n't have married him . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I swear to you that I did n't know anything about it … neither can my sister know , or she would n't have gone with Garry . ’ |
| 25 | Once , you would think he , she would n't have seen it or she would n't have |
| 26 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 27 | And because it is just one in a hundred , that one is going to be different in one way or another , or he or she would not bother to buy . |
| 28 | The tigress had seen me , or she would not have crossed the pool and hurried for shelter , as her tracks showed she had done . |
| 29 | It had various elements : detention upon arrest should only continue if the person was unwilling to identify himself or herself ; or if there was a likelihood that he or she would not turn up at court ; or if there was a need to prevent the continuation or repetition of the offence ; or if the arrest was essential to protect the arrested person or other persons or property or to secure evidence by questioning or other means . |
| 30 | I do n't know why they imagine it 's ‘ poofy ’ or we would n't find it attractive if they dressed up for us . |