Example sentences of "would not [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she thought that she would not go at all , that she would stay behind and pretend to be ill . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He realised it would not matter at all that they had no bathing costumes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It would not do at all . |
| 7 | To say that they were here only because of a hunch would not do at all . |
| 8 | I just the slightest sort of movement has readjusted it and this would not move at all ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the world had not first existed in the mind of God , it would not exist at all . |
| 12 | The Colonial Secretary , now Lennox-Boyd , invited Nkrumah to visit London but he would not leave at this critical time . |
| 13 | Spring 1992 and the Spitfire was wheeled out of the hangar and engine runs commenced , only to find that there appeared to be oil pressure problems until finally the engine would not start at all , in fact the Merlin was locked solid . |
| 14 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 15 | The end result , the Karik/Numerik CD player , is not less than Linn promised ( that it would accord with Linn 's very high [ analogue ] standards or that it would not appear at all ) , but strangely different . |
| 16 | Were there not so much , so dense and so hot , the Sun would not light at all . |
| 17 | The first thing to get straight about Zurich is that it is not the capital of Switzerland , though there are times when one thinks it ought to be , and others when one gets the impression that it would not mind at all if it was . |
| 18 | Section 739 would not apply at that point because no income is paid to an overseas person . |
| 19 | The United Kingdom , in its observations on the preliminary draft , expressed the hope that the Convention would not apply at all in cases in which the address of the person on whom documents were to be served was unknown ; it was unhappy about the possible effect of what was to become Article 15 in such cases and more generally felt that the provisions of the Convention were not apt where the address was unknown . |
| 20 | Last December , when £2 million was suggested as the likely price for their property , Mr Widdup and his 62-year-old wife made it clear they would not sell at any price . |
| 21 | For the most part they would n't speak at all even if threatened . |
| 22 | " He said if he could n't have her , he would n't marry at all . |
| 23 | A whole lot of alibis that would n't wash at all . ’ |
| 24 | I asked had a very heated discussion erm where I si wanting to be having the careers teachers in and working with the forms etcetera and doing it , the er job wise and he would n't entertain at all |
| 25 | That would n't do at all . |
| 26 | This would n't do at all . |
| 27 | But of course that would n't do at all . |
| 28 | If she was going to do the job at all , professional pride demanded she do it properly and , for hair as thick and luxuriant as his , ‘ just chopping a bit off ’ would n't do at all . |
| 29 | No , that would n't do at all . |
| 30 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |