Example sentences of "would not [verb] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd not leave it to someone who would turn it over . |
| 2 | No not C D , he 'd not put it to C D that 's complete rubbish no way |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They sprang into action when mum Angela Turner said she would not make it to Bishop Auckland hospital in time . |
| 5 | I would not expect them to pair and breed until they are at least four inches long , so you will have to be patient . |
| 6 | By the same token , he would not expect me to be found playing with his Gameboy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But politicizing the curriculum is not the same ( and the authors probably would not suppose it to be the same ) as broadening it . |
| 9 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
| 10 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |
| 11 | We would not leave it to the discretion of the doctors but , acting on the best medical advice , set down what drugs could be prescribed and those that could not . |
| 12 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 13 | ‘ I would not show it to my grandchildren , ’ said the 63-year-old actor . |
| 14 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 15 | Thinking they frequented the Creek I would not allow them to be shot but they bent down my grain and destroyed acres of it , and simultaneously disappeared some months after harvest — Where did they come from where do they go ? pray let me hear from you and believe me |
| 16 | The build-up of frustration he had felt since he lost the part would not allow him to be silent . |
| 17 | It would not allow it to be enforced against the promisor ; and if property had been transferred , the recipient was treated as holding it for the benefit of the person who had parted with it , and as bound to restore it . |
| 18 | When the archbishop heard this he pretended that the king would not allow it to be done ; the pope , fired with the zeal of justice , ordered the archbishop in virtue of the obedience owed to him , not to delay longer in carrying this out or he would find himself suspended from his priestly office and his suffragans released from obedience to him . |
| 19 | Gabrielle attended the opening night , the play toured the country — although the citizens of Eastbourne did not have the pleasure of it because the local council would not allow it to be staged unless the title was changed — and the West End beckoned . |
| 20 | Imogen refused to go with him and would not allow you to either . ’ |
| 21 | If you like swinging in the dark — the club would not allow you to be consistent . |
| 22 | I should not wish the young King to know about it or see , for he would not find it to his liking ; but I fear , so white is the stone , that he can not fail to see it from Mathefelon . |
| 23 | Those of us who live in south-east London not three miles from King 's Cross know that if we were taking our children to meet a continental train , or if we were taking elderly parents or grandparents to meet the train , we would not take them to King 's Cross , because we could not park there or get them near the platforms . |
| 24 | A representative of the newly installed Panamanian government said yesterday that if Panamanian forces found General Noriega they would not extradite him to the US to stand trial . |