Example sentences of "wo [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You push them , pull them , even plead with them — still they wo n't go the way you want . |
| 2 | That hand of mine wo n't go the right shape although I 've tried , I knew it would deform joints and so I put all my efforts into spreading them the opposite way , but I have n't won on that one , can you see ? |
| 3 | Wo n't go the long way round , a short circuit . |
| 4 | Fergie , defending PFA Footballer of the Year Pallister , said : ‘ Gary wo n't ignore the criticism because it does hurt . |
| 5 | Cottee believes that Shearer wo n't remain the highest-priced player for long . |
| 6 | Occasionally as Mary describes , our panels ’ tempers are severely tested by fishkeepers who ca n't or wo n't do the basic background reading for themselves . |
| 7 | The added documentation which bureaux might need to comply with such a requirement in this country could be costly , and the requirement seems to carry little practical value : if a credit granter suddenly gets information relating to an inquiry made some months earlier , which is almost certainly no longer active , it wo n't do the consumer any good . |
| 8 | ‘ Breakspear wo n't do the senator 's cruise , ’ he said , ‘ so you 'll lose that money , but if you work one night a week for me then you 'll earn just as much anyway . |
| 9 | Benichou likes to use his head if the fists wo n't do the job for him , and the atmosphere is definitely hostile down here in the South of France — but Scouser Hoko is totally unmoved . |
| 10 | Who is to say Norway wo n't do the same ? |
| 11 | And we can easily see that an external contingent relation , no matter how regular a contingent relation it is , wo n't do the trick . |
| 12 | But even as he at last turned and , more like a conjurer than ever , whipped the cloth from the object on the table , which turned out to be a saucepan containing water scooped from the shattered font , the first heavy drops began to drum on the altar table ; and while the Padre was saying : " Hope Mary Ellen , I baptize thee In the name of the Father and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , Amen , " the Collector , forgetting that he had only just renounced an interest in the vain pomp and glory of the world , thought crossly : " That wo n't do the Louis XVI table any good at all . " |
| 13 | I wo n't do the smallest good thing for humanity . |
| 14 | The rest wo n't do the arm any harm either . ’ |
| 15 | It wo n't do the skin any harm particularly , but it can smart . |
| 16 | Now you rea fo w with a story like this you really need a erm a , a decent does of antibiotics and given the of the unpleasant taste and the pus you can see , ordinary penicillin probably wo n't do the trick , so we need to use something with a bit more oomph |
| 17 | Oh yes , there were n't no argument about that , if they did n't they wo n't do the bloody work . |
| 18 | It wo n't do the public any harm to think we care about them , but I 'm not used to being watched . ’ |
| 19 | Erm he come in about that so we wrote a letter saying that I wo n't do the job for ninety pound , but I 'll stick to the original |
| 20 | Dad wo n't hold the babies — he 's afraid of dropping them ! ’ |
| 21 | Said John Thompson , IBM vice-president and Application Business Systems general manager , ‘ We will implement RISC [ on the AS/400 ] , but not until it catches up with the AS/400 architecture , which we think is more advanced … and until we can do it in a way that wo n't disrupt the customer 's applications . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ What 's the use of having an Official Dog Chaser , if she wo n't chase the dog away ? ’ croaked the frogs . |
| 23 | Sunil wo n't drink the champagne of course . |
| 24 | On the evidence of opinion-swings when the bombing of Iraq began , this wo n't prevent the public from cheering lustily when Bush orders the bombers to take off . |
| 25 | Er , this will obviously stop people driving on the wrong side of the road but it certainly wo n't or it wo n't prevent the excessive use of this service road which is very narrow indeed . |
| 26 | Tried and trusted for generations , Drapolene 's special formula wo n't block the action of disposable nappies . |
| 27 | Otherwise children , without those , grow up physically , psychologically damaged and the purpose of Save The Children Fund is to work to give children the chance of a better childhood and the chance to grow up to be adults who wo n't repeat the sins of their forefathers . |
| 28 | This is what I call the strategy of non-decision , the decision that we will do nothing , that we wo n't harass the child , that we will give the child time to relax and move at his own pace , rather than determining the pace that we feel the child ought to be following . |
| 29 | But the people in the firing line say that getting rid of the county council wo n't serve the people , and would be inefficient . |
| 30 | But the divided loyalties wo n't bother the Irish because Jack , whose second passion is fishing , will be bringing cheer to Ireland 's anglers who suffer physical disability . |