Example sentences of "would not [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd not leave it to someone who would turn it over . |
| 2 | mm he 'd not put it on the drive this time |
| 3 | No not C D , he 'd not put it to C D that 's complete rubbish no way |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd not put it past him to lock me up … ’ |
| 5 | And he 's filled all the front in and the back , like , referees and everything and he said inside you 've got to give your details of your erm employment history and he 'd not put anything in , said I did n't know whether to put anything on there cos I 'm on a Y P . |
| 6 | Lyons , in fact , would support this view and , whatever other characteristics he might attribute to literacy , or to specific language-systems such as English , he would not associate them with lack of ambiguity , as do Hildyard , Olson and Greenfield . |
| 7 | If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object . |
| 8 | The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top . |
| 9 | They sprang into action when mum Angela Turner said she would not make it to Bishop Auckland hospital in time . |
| 10 | and that acceptance would not preclude them from running a Unionist next time , promises that caused trouble later . |
| 11 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 12 | That would be quite unacceptable to good potential MPs who do not think much of popularity ( their own or other people 's ) and would not demean themselves by deliberately setting out to acquire it . |
| 13 | I would not expect them to pair and breed until they are at least four inches long , so you will have to be patient . |
| 14 | By the same token , he would not expect me to be found playing with his Gameboy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That being so , one would not expect there to be fully formulated justifications . |
| 17 | The lord of Parfois was a law to himself ; if he ever did discover where Master Harry lay buried , the Severn would not stop him from pursuing the dead with his living and virulent hatred , the Welsh border would be no bar to him , even the sanctity of the church would not restrain him . |
| 18 | Mrs Grandison had promised her daughter that they would not inflict themselves on her for a meal — realising that Lady Selvedge might well be something of an infliction — and had assumed that from Victoria they would take a taxi to some Soho restaurant or perhaps Simpsons in the Strand . |
| 19 | But Ellis would not sanction anything above £2.1m . |
| 20 | ‘ I said the money would not change me as a person and it has n't , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Because if he treated her as her father had treated Odette , she knew she would not bear it so patiently , would not bless him on the day he finally left her , as Odette had done , but would go after him with a knife to hunt him down . |
| 22 | But politicizing the curriculum is not the same ( and the authors probably would not suppose it to be the same ) as broadening it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | She would not do it at all . |
| 27 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 28 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 29 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |