Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he was wary of commenting on a specific meeting , Mr Hyde said the company ‘ would not make it a matter of policy to say we have been in contact or received authorisation , if that had n't been the case ’ . |
| 2 | I was hoping he would not offer us a glass of his very potent drink that I now know as Calvados . |
| 3 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 4 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 5 | I would not give him an answer until we were on our own . |
| 6 | She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg . |
| 7 | Frankenstein would not give me a wife , but he hoped to find happiness with a wife of his own . |
| 8 | The navy says an accident would not give anybody a dose higher than the four millirems per year limit set for drinking water in the US . |
| 9 | Even though the story reverberated through the Highlands , there is no evidence that either Boswell or Johnson knew the tale — had they done so , Boswell might have been less merry with his lubricious reasons as to why the woman would not show them the bedroom . |
| 10 | Whilst the examples used come from civil law , we can see that the ideological grasp of those subject to criminal law is removed totally , because ‘ common sense ’ would not allow it a voice . |
| 11 | So if your virus scanner was set to check once a day it would not run it every time you boot up , only the first time you booted up that day , excellent ! |
| 12 | On another occasion an out-of-work blacksmith came and said that " if the parish would not find him a shop to work in , he would make his complaint to a justice " . |
| 13 | Earl Ferrers , whose closest friends would not call him an intellectual , was unfamiliar with the arcane procedure of the House . |
| 14 | Michael Holly , now on his knees on a Stolypin carriage floor , and unshaven because they would not permit him a razor , and with the hunger lapping at his belly , had been a model prisoner in the Vladimir gaol 200 kilometres east of the capital . |
| 15 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
| 16 | These eagles would not know what a zoo was , or believe that he had escaped from one in a place where no eagles lived naturally . |
| 17 | She 's elderly and , quite frankly , so bad-tempered I would n't leave her a cat . |
| 18 | Mind , we would n't want it every time |
| 19 | And then the plate was passed from him to his murderer and it was passed round until it was passed to the bank manager who would n't give her the money and then back to her . |
| 20 | So he would n't give me a kiss and he would n't say goodnight so I thought nah I 'm not bothered . |
| 21 | Would n't give me a hint over the phone . ’ |
| 22 | He either would n't give me a line or would say my line himself . ’ |
| 23 | You would n't give me a cigarette anyway . |
| 24 | If I gave an interview I was the greatest guy in the world but if I said ‘ no , I want some time to myself ’ , they would n't give me the time of day . |
| 25 | I would n't give them the time of day . ’ |
| 26 | I would n't I would n't give them the option , I would go and ask those same ones you had in last week . |
| 27 | He would n't give them the satisfaction . |
| 28 | I would n't give them the satisfaction . |
| 29 | ‘ The PCC would n't give him a bean towards getting it repaired and he said he 'd spike their guns and do it himself . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I would n't give him a ham sandwich , ’ said Robert . |