Example sentences of "it would [not/n't] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | If your home got hit by a tornado it would n't recover quickly either . |
2 | it would n't set so I hit it and you know buttons ? |
3 | It would n't exist as far as the programmer was concerned . |
4 | and it soft it would n't soften up , it stayed hard and they were all over garden . |
5 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
6 | It would n't go on for ever . |
7 | You could make five lots of two but you 'd two left over so it would n't go evenly okay . |
8 | I wish it would n't go so fast ! ’ she thought — and at once the broomstick 's pace slowed . |
9 | er , first of all I would put it to my divisional board to my colleagues to ask for their thoughts and their advice erm , if they rejected it then it would n't go any further , if they approved it then it , because it was a budgetary item rather than just we can go out and spend it tomorrow , it was going into the following years budget , it would then go to the P L C board and they would have final say in whether that element should go into the , into next years budget |
10 | And he 's travelling along the road and the next thing there 's such a bang and it would n't go any further ! |
11 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
12 | Er what would you be able to manage on , sort of thing and I said about two hundred and fifty a year and er , you know , that was quite realistic in those days but erm obviously it would n't go very far now , would it ? |
13 | That did not mean that it would n't go out in style . |
14 | well if you got pastry right , and you have to put a sponge on top like this is , it would go soggy , it would n't go hard would it ? , so if you bake it blind you 're baking pastry on its without anything on |
15 | But it would n't mean very much to me if I did , ’ she confessed to the tall lean man whom she assessed as being somewhere in his middle thirties . |
16 | ‘ It would n't mean very much to me either , ’ he replied with some charm , and , while Fabia 's heart gave a most unexpected flutter , he promptly took charge of her problem and , pointing to a patch of ground a little way over to the right , instructed , ‘ Steer your car over there . |
17 | I thought he was kinda saying to that by the time she got round to saying it , it would n't mean as much . |
18 | Or if we all disagreed , but we treated it all , to use Russell 's favourite example , like disagreements about the taste of oysters , it would n't matter very much either . |
19 | It would n't matter now what she , Dinah , did ; Robert Asshe would be hoping for an heir from the new wife , the young girl who could n't act . |
20 | I could turn convict , he thought , and live in prison and it would n't matter then about a job or all the things ahead that looks so unpromising . |
21 | ‘ It would n't matter much because I have a reputation , one that I 'm really stretching to the full in doing a feature on sunny Spain . |
22 | And then that 'd be throwing all the water away , it w it would n't soak in . |
23 | I 'm determined that it 's not going to happen to me , but if people were to stop buying my work I would continue painting , so it would n't make that much difference . |
24 | I 'm determined that it 's not going to happen to me , but if people were to stop buying my work I would continue painting , so it would n't make that much difference . |
25 | Aye , but it would n't cost very much to carpet those two areas . |
26 | John said it would n't cost much in petrol as Pat McClusky , an excellent comic , was driving a minibus over with eight of John 's other acts and I could go with them . |
27 | It would n't cost much . |
28 | Oh , she had the bag of coins beneath the bedroom floorboards , but it was no fortune , and with four mouths to feed it would n't last very long . |
29 | It would n't fit into the sequence , it would n't match up with the ledger . |
30 | I was going to have it altered , but now with the baby it would n't fit anyway . |