Example sentences of "[pron] would [not/n't] [vb infin] for the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And I would n't stand for the prima donna behaviour of some of them , either .
2 I would n't play for the team if they paid me .
3 The SDLP 's public support for the Tories in the 1987 General Election caused its former leader , Gerry Fitt to comment : ‘ I would not vote for the SDLP because it is not a socialist party …
4 Graham , the doubter who would not vote for the local Conservative MP , had even expressed indifference about the Russians taking over South Africa .
5 A REPORT PREPARED by the District Attorney , who would not vouch for the figures , said Los Angeles had 150,000 gang members of all races .
6 ‘ Is there much you would n't do for the $ 87,000 worth of merchandise you have there ? ’
7 One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong .
8 ‘ In other words , we would not vote for the ball being thrown in any direction , for instance to someone running onto it from deep .
9 The women remained firm that unless the entire order was completed they would not pay for the hot whiskies .
10 The two pacts under discussion with the United Kingdom and France concerned training , joint military exercises and military supplies ; unlike the agreement with the USA they would not allow for the stockpiling of military equipment in Kuwait .
11 We came here to Siena , where I have been before , though to a different house , to visit my husband who accompanied the Brownings last month , the doctor having ordered Mrs Browning to be taken out of this city or he would not answer for the consequences .
12 Tonally there 's a lot more bottom end than I was expecting , and while it would n't pass for the finest of Martins , it 's good enough to fit into any acoustic line-up and would certainly be bright enough to handle picking and single line solos .
13 The French Communist Party ( PCF ) , whose votes would have been needed for its success , boycotted the session ; it had declared that while it did not support the government , it would not vote for the motion , which it described as a " manoeuvre " .
14 Because of this fluidity in royal land-holding a list of all the known royal estates from the whole Merovingian period would be misleading ; it would not allow for the pattern of acquisition and alienation .
15 But the main effect of the Candida toxins is to depress the immune system — while this may well be important in perpetuating the Candida infection , it would not account for the symptoms described above .
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