Example sentences of "[noun sg] would not [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because the Tory Opposition would not allow it — and that in spite of a general election which , fought on the one issue , had just returned a House of Commons with a large majority in favour . |
| 2 | What was on Reni 's table was blood-food , and Huy would not touch it . |
| 3 | The man in the attic had been dragged through the gaps under the roof to one of the empty houses next door , and from there to the bushes down by the beck where the sound of his coughing would not give him away . |
| 4 | But I knew that the monster would not visit us until our wedding night . |
| 5 | Coarser gravel would not need it , but fine gravel is easier for plants to grow their roots through . |
| 6 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |
| 7 | A good soldier to the end , Mr Kuchma , who learned only an hour before Mr Kravchuk 's speech that the president would not support him , tendered his resignation . |
| 8 | If you like swinging in the dark — the club would not allow you to be consistent . |
| 9 | ‘ Because British law would not allow it , Richie . |
| 10 | Joanna would have drawn Isabel indoors then , but fitzAlan would not permit her to walk . |
| 11 | ‘ But surely my lord fitzAlan would not wed you if he truly thought — ’ |
| 12 | She said the Sports Council would not abandon us but in order to qualify for full Grant Aid in future we must show great improvements in these areas . |
| 13 | Gabrielle attended the opening night , the play toured the country — although the citizens of Eastbourne did not have the pleasure of it because the local council would not allow it to be staged unless the title was changed — and the West End beckoned . |
| 14 | Priestley concludes that ‘ twenty Marxian treatises about the proletariat would not make you feel a tenth of the compassion for the dispossessed urban masses as this bit of pantomime does ’ . |
| 15 | It was this that gave Anselm the hint that peace would not bring him freedom to exercise his episcopal functions . |
| 16 | Of course , the short leash would not allow her to do this . |
| 17 | In one way he was glad to be interrupted — superstitiously afraid that if of his own volition he decided to leave the miraculous spot then the unique mood would not follow him and he would be like a man without a shadow . |
| 18 | Order , or or or order , order , the honourable lady would not expect me to comment on something that has been on television , er in something that I I have no er I I did n't even see last night , it 's up to the minister whether he wishes to come and make a statement it is really not at all a point of order for me . |
| 19 | His honour would not permit him to attack his sovereign , yet he still owed allegiance to Motamid . |
| 20 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 21 | Then , all the weight in the world on the wing-tip would not stop it going over . |
| 22 | Norwich manager Mike Walker insisted that Newman 's enforced lay-off would not force him into the transfer market . |
| 23 | But its enchantment would not release her , and she had no will with which to break the spell . |
| 24 | She said that the European Community would not allow us to do so . |
| 25 | Even the area down at the riverside would not hold them all , so that the legions had to make various other encampments , scattered wherever there was suitable ground . |
| 26 | ‘ Roman would not want you going there . ’ |
| 27 | And I know Roman would not want you to go there . |
| 28 | He could not believe what he was hearing , but he knew that the General would not deceive him in these , or any other , circumstances . |
| 29 | For Emilia , as for himself , Dr Horrocks 's reassurance that miscarriage was a kind of mercy had brought no deep comfort , and Frere would not remind her of it , for he had quickly seen that , in some way he was far from comprehending , the loss was more secondary to her than it was to himself . |
| 30 | Rourke would not disturb her . |