Example sentences of "he would not [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 2 | Our white 's qualities would certainly tend very much to preserve him to a good old age , and yet he would not suffice in any number of generations to turn his subjects ' descendants white … |
| 3 | The Colonial Secretary , now Lennox-Boyd , invited Nkrumah to visit London but he would not leave at this critical time . |
| 4 | Brutus says that he has no real reason to believe that Caesar would change his nature like this but because they had no proof either was it would be too much of a presumption to say that he would not change at all . |
| 5 | She wished he would not stand like that , Ashley thought edgily . |
| 6 | He had neither the patience nor method to understand properly how they worked and he would not bow to any instruction other than his own perusal of certain manuals and textbooks . |
| 7 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 8 | ‘ I ask you to believe that in normal circumstances he would not behave like that , but he is still not quite himself … the death of his friend , you know … ’ |
| 9 | As the maximum gradient was 1 in 12 , the Inspecting Officer said he was entitled to insist on the use of cars with track brakes , but as the road flattened out before the bottom , he would not insist on this occasion . |
| 10 | I remember Debbie bringing me home once from Bingo and he 's coming up as she 's coming up , she 's almost there too her house , and he would n't budge , he would n't back , he would n't reverse at all . |
| 11 | I asked had a very heated discussion erm where I si wanting to be having the careers teachers in and working with the forms etcetera and doing it , the er job wise and he would n't entertain at all |
| 12 | Oh well if he 's a nervous person he would n't think like that would he ? |
| 13 | Sadly , when he went into one of his depressions , he sometimes seemed to punish us by deciding that he would n't go on any more — he 'd stop eating and that would be that . |
| 14 | Gary brought him up the hospital to meet me he would n't speak to any of the nurses |
| 15 | I daresay he would n't bother with such gestures now . |
| 16 | " He said if he could n't have her , he would n't marry at all . |
| 17 | At the same time , he would n't feel at all happy were she to marry someone she could not possibly love simply to make her life easier , more luxurious . |
| 18 | I realized that she was n't going to tell him about events on Vadinamia so that he would n't jump to any conclusions and complicate things . |
| 19 | She had helped him out of his jacket , tie and shoes , reckoned he would n't come to any great harm if he slept in his damp shirt and trousers , and placed a duvet over him . |
| 20 | He would n't behave like that . |
| 21 | I could scream abuse at him all day long ; he would n't mind at all . |
| 22 | He would n't mind at all . |