Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to meet two gentlemen on the road — we would not hope to meet them off it . |
| 2 | I was now twenty metres up in the air , and I desperately hoped he would not decide to throw me to the ground . |
| 3 | I would not want to mislead anyone into thinking that research is easy : it is hard and very time consuming work . |
| 4 | But Mr Reynolds declared : ‘ Our first priority is to get all parties around the table , and we would not want to do anything at this stage that might hinder the process . |
| 5 | I would not want to return you to your female progenitor in what , from my briefings on human culture , I perceive to be an indecorous condition . ’ |
| 6 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 7 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 8 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 9 | The southern entrance to the Bay was protected by a fearsome group of rocks , Les Cardinals , to port and a treacherous shoal , Le Four , to starboard and , with the weather worsening , Admiral Conflans was confident Hawke would not dare to pursue him through this hazardous gap without the benefit of local pilots , but he had underrated both his adversary 's daring and his seamanship . |
| 10 | ‘ We have a certain operation ahead of us and we would not like to disclose it to the press , ’ team leader Nikita Smidovitch said in Manama last night , hours before a UN plane was to fly to Baghdad . |
| 11 | But revision would not have saved him from his misunderstandings , his reluctance to think , his complete lack of biological imagination . |
| 12 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 13 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 14 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 15 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 16 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 17 | It seemed they could have everything merely because they were boys , they would not have to sacrifice anything for anything else . |
| 18 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 19 | Do I take it Councillor that they would not have received it without your visit ? |
| 20 | In the normal way I would not have followed him into the gunsmith 's , a place of such absolute masculinity , smelling of game and metal , ringing with men 's talk . |
| 21 | For a start Albert the Thief would not have made it through the membership committee . |
| 22 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 23 | Agreement on this suggestion would bring the meeting to a close , and most of those present would not have to do anything at all about the wretched book . |
| 24 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 25 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 26 | Were he to appear now , in the moonlit room , Chant would not have accused him of negligence , but made proper obeisances and been glad that his inspiration had returned . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , one would not have wished her to be miserable . |
| 28 | My friend , the student , could not have begun to agree to that , and of course the taxi driver would not have allowed him to . |
| 29 | But sometimes the expenditure will result in the plaintiff acquiring an asset of a type that he would have required even if he had not been disabled , although he would not have required one with the special attributes of the asset in question . |
| 30 | The court was influenced by evidence pointing to the fact that the defendants had been negligent and it was stated that had steps been taken to mitigate the nuisance , the Council would not have found itself in the position it was now in . |