Example sentences of "[noun sg] would not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knew that the monster would not visit us until our wedding night . |
| 2 | If you like swinging in the dark — the club would not allow you to be consistent . |
| 3 | Gabrielle attended the opening night , the play toured the country — although the citizens of Eastbourne did not have the pleasure of it because the local council would not allow it to be staged unless the title was changed — and the West End beckoned . |
| 4 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 5 | Norwich manager Mike Walker insisted that Newman 's enforced lay-off would not force him into the transfer market . |
| 6 | He could not believe what he was hearing , but he knew that the General would not deceive him in these , or any other , circumstances . |
| 7 | For Emilia , as for himself , Dr Horrocks 's reassurance that miscarriage was a kind of mercy had brought no deep comfort , and Frere would not remind her of it , for he had quickly seen that , in some way he was far from comprehending , the loss was more secondary to her than it was to himself . |
| 8 | ‘ Your God would not thank you for throwing away your life . |
| 9 | When the archbishop heard this he pretended that the king would not allow it to be done ; the pope , fired with the zeal of justice , ordered the archbishop in virtue of the obedience owed to him , not to delay longer in carrying this out or he would find himself suspended from his priestly office and his suffragans released from obedience to him . |
| 10 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
| 11 | He had nothing to give Merymose to take to Kenamun , and the priest-administrator would not thank him for information which cast suspicion on two of the most powerful men in the country . |
| 12 | They might be , predictably , so unpopular that Parliament would not pass them in the first place . |
| 13 | The build-up of frustration he had felt since he lost the part would not allow him to be silent . |
| 14 | ‘ I said the money would not change me as a person and it has n't , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Alan Dysart , the outspoken junior Defence minister , yesterday insisted that attempts on his life would not deter him from denouncing those seeking to overthrow democracy in Northern Ireland … . |
| 16 | There was a loud noise and my leg would not support me for several weeks . |
| 17 | Their relationship had become calmer , more gentle , then he remembered Doctor Vincentius and hoped the physician would not ensnare her with his subtle charm . |
| 18 | His computer ranking would not get him into a 42-man field . |
| 19 | At this point in Louis 's reign Nithard comments : " the emperor could now feel confident that the aristocracy would not desert him for the rest of his life " . |
| 20 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
| 21 | To his grief , Donny 's widow would not find it in her heart to speak to him again . |
| 22 | and that acceptance would not preclude them from running a Unionist next time , promises that caused trouble later . |
| 23 | She had aged in four years , lost whatever attraction she had ever had , and it made her miserable to realise this son would not remember her without grey hair . |
| 24 | Here he learnt that the pope would not release him from the archbishopric , but wished him to expound the Latin doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit at a meeting with representatives of the Greek Church at Bari in October . |
| 25 | But his wisdom would not help him in this instance . |
| 26 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |