Example sentences of "i would not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd not put it past him to lock me up … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I would not show it to my grandchildren , ’ said the 63-year-old actor . |
| 3 | ‘ But I made a decision that I would not do it beyond the age of 35 , and then I would return to try to make a contribution . ’ |
| 4 | I would not expect them to pair and breed until they are at least four inches long , so you will have to be patient . |
| 5 | From across the kitchen he said , ‘ I do n't think anything I have painted this autumn is quite as good as this , but then , I would not expect it to be . |
| 6 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
| 7 | She might say , and I would not blame her for saying , that the Strangeways riot and the riots associated with it have given cause for a total and radical rethink . |
| 8 | ‘ If Birkenhead stood alone , ’ Baldwin self-righteously pronounced , ‘ I would not touch him with a barge-pole . ’ |
| 9 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 10 | I would not lose him for every noble we 'll get for him . |
| 11 | He almost pranced along the passage with his pet and I hoped fervently that I would not see them in there again . |
| 12 | ‘ When she started staying with friends I would not see her for about a week or so , but I was not concerned . |
| 13 | Yet as our relationship deepened , you seemed to abstract yourself , and sometimes I would not see you for days on end . |
| 14 | Thinking they frequented the Creek I would not allow them to be shot but they bent down my grain and destroyed acres of it , and simultaneously disappeared some months after harvest — Where did they come from where do they go ? pray let me hear from you and believe me |
| 15 | I would not let you from David 's side willingly , no more than I 'd send him into the battle without a shield . ’ |
| 16 | It is true that a form of haematuria is called ‘ essential ’ , but I can not believe Eliot was referring to that , though I would not put it past him . |
| 17 | I would not recommend them for submersed cultivation and I do not believe that a reputable aquarium dealer would sell you those plants as aquarium plants . |
| 18 | I would not charge you for lessons . |
| 19 | It is difficult to think that Parliament intended the section to operate so capriciously and I would not construe it in that sense unless clearly constrained to do so by the statutory language . |
| 20 | I would not forsake ye , I would not forsake you for sweetest of scenes : For sweetest of gardens that nature could make me I would not forsake ye , dear valleys and greens : Tho' Nature ne'er dropped ye a cloud-resting mountain , Nor waterfalls tumble their music so free , Had Nature denied ye a bush , tree , or fountain , Ye still had been loved as an Eden by me . |