Example sentences of "would not [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd not think of that … |
| 2 | Our white 's qualities would certainly tend very much to preserve him to a good old age , and yet he would not suffice in any number of generations to turn his subjects ' descendants white … |
| 3 | By sharpening his policy differences with Mr Kinnock he persuaded the voters that life under Labour would not go on much as before . |
| 4 | Then she thought that she would not go at all , that she would stay behind and pretend to be ill . |
| 5 | Its outcome is not really in doubt , not because it is a put-up job but because the CEGB would not go into such an exercise if it had only a 50–50 chance of success . |
| 6 | Perhaps , she had thought , she would not go after all . |
| 7 | Thus , it was clear from the composition of the new cabinet that , while foreign policy might follow a new direction , domestic policy would not change at all . |
| 8 | Brutus says that he has no real reason to believe that Caesar would change his nature like this but because they had no proof either was it would be too much of a presumption to say that he would not change at all . |
| 9 | No , she would not think of that — no , never that , and she began to wield her feather duster with such angry vigour that Dr Neil , coming in , was amused at her bright energy which even the ever-lasting drudgery which she performed could not dim . |
| 10 | However , a child , having the book read to them , would not think of such complex ideas , and after all the book was designed for a child . |
| 11 | He realised it would not matter at all that they had no bathing costumes . |
| 12 | Although Pearson managing director Frank Barlow would not comment on either of these projects , Asia is certainly an area of expanding interest for Longman ( see facing page ) . |
| 13 | Officials would not comment on this suggestion , even to deny it . |
| 14 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 15 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 16 | Viola would have to give up her career , of course — otherwise she would be coming home the same time as Gina , which would not do at all . |
| 17 | It would not do at all . |
| 18 | To say that they were here only because of a hunch would not do at all . |
| 19 | I just the slightest sort of movement has readjusted it and this would not move at all ! |
| 20 | According to the Department of the Army in Washington , spare parts would not arrive until some time in 1952 . |
| 21 | He wanted them to gather last Friday and be absented from their weekend round of Championship matches , but even Albert Ferrasse , the autocratic French Federation president , would not stand for that . |
| 22 | And he , Alexander Augustus Hope , Colonel , at your service , gentlemen , would not stand for another coarse word in her presence , DID THEY HEAR ? |
| 23 | Americans " would not stand for this much longer . |
| 24 | She wished he would not stand like that , Ashley thought edgily . |
| 25 | In addition , the constant incursion and retreat of the sea creates and maintains vast zones that are neither wholly marine , nor wholly freshwater , nor wholly land-based ; intertidal zones that vary in width , between spring tides and neap , and which could not persist , or would not exist at all , were it not for the tides . |
| 26 | All three types of pattern , ( written , diagrammatical and digital or Form ) , are based on a tension , or gauge , swatch ; without this , the pattern would not exist at all in any form , because all knitting patterns are basically a notation of how to knit a shape with a given yarn and stitch type , mathematically calculated from the original swatch . |
| 27 | If the world had not first existed in the mind of God , it would not exist at all . |
| 28 | The Colonial Secretary , now Lennox-Boyd , invited Nkrumah to visit London but he would not leave at this critical time . |
| 29 | Despite Zenith continuing to represent an unspecified percentage of Bull 's losses for 1992 , Pache would not commit to any drastic changes in that area . |
| 30 | It is also felt , however , that many autistic children would not benefit from this process of integration and special schools will continue to play a major role . |