Example sentences of "would not [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 'd not deal with them in contemptible , contemptuous secret — Lachlan would never take her back then … |
| 2 | By the time she reached Venice , they had had enough : ‘ they would not go with her for a hundred pound ’ , and left her on her own . |
| 3 | The moment she thought of Peter , then Martin ( no , she would not think of him in that ridiculous way with a small m ) no longer looked so good , so handsome . |
| 4 | ‘ I wish you would not speak to me like that . |
| 5 | Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar . |
| 6 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 7 | Superstitiously , perhaps , protectively more like , he did not care to explain it or examine it much and he would not interfere with it at all . |
| 8 | With any luck they would not run across her during the day , although for press purposes both Major and Hurd would have to say how pleased they were to hear of her arrival . |
| 9 | Those who would not bow to him in life , it says , now go down on their knees to his bones . |
| 10 | In return for the unions ' consent formally to acknowledge managements ' prerogatives of decision-making at plant level , employers would recognise the right of workers to join unions and would not discriminate against them for doing so . |
| 11 | He would not come to me in Paris ; so I went to him . |
| 12 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 13 | Sometimes she wished Will would not write to her at all , if he would send no messages to Daniel . |
| 14 | I have not done that before in my career , but I knew things would not happen for us without action being taken . |
| 15 | ‘ When you would not dine with me on Tuesday , I drove that evening to my parents in Plzeň , but had I known you would sound so pleased to hear me , I would have driven back sooner than last night , ’ he lost no time in taking advantage . |