Example sentences of "would not [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But revision would not have saved him from his misunderstandings , his reluctance to think , his complete lack of biological imagination . |
| 2 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 7 | Do I take it Councillor that they would not have received it without your visit ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For a start Albert the Thief would not have made it through the membership committee . |
| 10 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 11 | ’ ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , one would not have wished her to be miserable . |
| 15 | My friend , the student , could not have begun to agree to that , and of course the taxi driver would not have allowed him to . |
| 16 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 17 | She is a cold , unfeeling and unresponsive woman : she must be , or Hugo would not have left her for me . |
| 18 | The haciendas , the castles and the oast-houses would not have suited her at all . |
| 19 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 20 | He would not have put it past her to make a kind of bargain on that basis . |
| 21 | Orwell would not have put it like that . |
| 22 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 23 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 24 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 25 | Believing our intellectual abilities to be God-given , he presumably thought that , had they not been sufficient for our needs , God would not have supplemented them by innately endowing us with anything other than truth . |