Example sentences of "would not [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 2 | But this text clearly belongs to the period after Alexander , though I would not commit myself to a Maccabean date . |
| 3 | Why should rebels who would not commit themselves to the support of the state enjoy its fruits ? |
| 4 | Acheson would not commit himself on the sums of money involved and indicated that estimates had to be finalised . |
| 5 | She would not lower herself to the level he clearly thought suited her . |
| 6 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
| 7 | I 'm not that er good at it er as far as that 's concerned , I can normally tell , but I would n't class myself as an expert in Capodimonte . |
| 8 | I wished that I was less inhibited by my upbringing and could have done some extraordinary thing to confirm her diagnosis — danced on the table or stated that I would n't ally myself with a man with a face like a toothpaste advertisement . |