Example sentences of "would n't [verb] [pers pn] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He admitted that there was someone else , but he would n't give me any details . |
| 2 | I know Rosie told me , soon after the wedding , that his bank would n't give him any help , so how did he finally raise the money ? ’ |
| 3 | He had n't wanted to sign anything , but they had said they would n't give him any money unless he did , so he 'd pretended to read the papers carefully and then signed them . |
| 4 | There 's a nice story about my , one of my favourite presidents , I told you last time , Theodore Roosevelt , Roosevelt got very frustrated with congress so he sent the American navy , he had no money , they would n't give him any money , so he sent the American navy to the Philippines and he said to congress if you want them back again you 'd better vote some more money cos they have n't got any fuel erm which is a fairly odd way of proceeding one might think . |
| 5 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 6 | would n't give you any marks for that . |
| 7 | I they would n't give you any points . |
| 8 | They would n't do me any good with my Service I grant-you that . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd be more worried about Tony , cos I do n't think Tony 's as well wise as Paul is , in some ways really for both of them it would n't do them any harm you know because look , they 're , they 're , they 're not typical lads in many ways |
| 10 | It would n't do him any harm to take this ungoverned creature for a short jaunt in the fields and the experience would give him a splendid ascendancy over Inspector Burden when he walked into the station at nine-thirty . |
| 11 | would n't do him any harm , but it would n't half make him go ah , cos it 's dead minty |
| 12 | Playing the Tory game does not work in securing power , and would n't do us any good in the long term even if it did . |
| 13 | ‘ Another couple of hours , at least , and it would n't do you any harm to wait a bit . ’ |
| 14 | A good feed would n't do it any 'arm , ’ the old man growled back . |
| 15 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |