Example sentences of "would not [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [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 return you to your female progenitor in what , from my briefings on human culture , I perceive to be an indecorous condition . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If the police were sufficiently confident of their case against Sykes , surely they would not hesitate to take him into custody ? |
| 9 | He could not stop the rain now , just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season , without serious danger to his own health . |
| 10 | The judge was told that the father had given undertakings ( which the judge recited in the course of his judgment ) that , if the court ordered the child to be returned to Canada , he would not attempt to remove him from the care of the mother without an order of the Canadian court ; that he would not support or initiate any contempt of court or criminal proceedings arising from the mother 's removal of the child , and would co-operate in having an early hearing of the proceedings in Ontario . |
| 11 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to be on his way , I would not wish to delay him for a moment . |
| 12 | She would not need to see her until tonight . |