Example sentences of "would not [verb] [pers pn] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would not do her any real harm . |
| 2 | It would not do you any credit to stay on in Munich without an appointment . |
| 3 | But she would not lend him any . |
| 4 | It was clear that Mrs Fairfax would not tell me any more . |
| 5 | SHE had feared that she would not know him any more … that his 1,943 days of hell as a hostage would have left them strangers . |
| 6 | If Mrs Maybury would n't tell them any more , what could she do ? |
| 7 | I just do n't believe it , I 'm afraid , but he would n't tell me any more . ’ |
| 8 | Twice , she opened her mouth to yell Pascoe 's name , but reasoned that to call him would n't bring him any faster , and might well distract him . |
| 9 | Would n't want you any other way Eileen , we like you to be subtle . |
| 10 | Tricky at first , but once mastered you would n't want it any other way . |
| 11 | ‘ He admitted that there was someone else , but he would n't give me any details . |
| 12 | I know Rosie told me , soon after the wedding , that his bank would n't give him any help , so how did he finally raise the money ? ’ |
| 13 | He had n't wanted to sign anything , but they had said they would n't give him any money unless he did , so he 'd pretended to read the papers carefully and then signed them . |
| 14 | There 's a nice story about my , one of my favourite presidents , I told you last time , Theodore Roosevelt , Roosevelt got very frustrated with congress so he sent the American navy , he had no money , they would n't give him any money , so he sent the American navy to the Philippines and he said to congress if you want them back again you 'd better vote some more money cos they have n't got any fuel erm which is a fairly odd way of proceeding one might think . |
| 15 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 16 | I they would n't give you any points . |
| 17 | would n't give you any marks for that . |
| 18 | They would n't do me any good with my Service I grant-you that . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd be more worried about Tony , cos I do n't think Tony 's as well wise as Paul is , in some ways really for both of them it would n't do them any harm you know because look , they 're , they 're , they 're not typical lads in many ways |
| 20 | It would n't do him any harm to take this ungoverned creature for a short jaunt in the fields and the experience would give him a splendid ascendancy over Inspector Burden when he walked into the station at nine-thirty . |
| 21 | would n't do him any harm , but it would n't half make him go ah , cos it 's dead minty |
| 22 | Playing the Tory game does not work in securing power , and would n't do us any good in the long term even if it did . |
| 23 | ‘ Another couple of hours , at least , and it would n't do you any harm to wait a bit . ’ |
| 24 | A good feed would n't do it any 'arm , ’ the old man growled back . |
| 25 | One , Federal Express just decided it would n't do it any more , and other other one Elan , a couple of weeks ago , or last week or whatever it was , decided it could n't afford to do it any more . |
| 26 | exactly , it 's the only way you can do it and I would n't do it any other way , because I do n't bel I do n't , I do n't think it 's fair , if I was using the phone continually I 'd get rather annoyed , I mean that I 'd , they 'd have a right to be annoyed , but as I do n't I think it 's ridiculous so I 'm not hardly surprised at all , so I think it 's stupid as you say , but there you go . |
| 27 | ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’ |
| 28 | Well the thing is I 'm thinking , you see , the end of the year erm is A G M November , so if we , you know , we are thinking erm , a , you know , getting someone else , er we could tell her that , you know , we would n't need her any more after November and sort of start afresh like that , try and get someone else . |
| 29 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 30 | I goes of course Derek would n't have it any other way . |