Example sentences of "would not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If only she would not go on about Cambridge so , ’ Miss Waters regretted . |
| 2 | But for some reason Alice would not go on with that thought . |
| 3 | He promised himself he would not go up to the tower to observe the stars . |
| 4 | It would not go down past her hips , and stuck in a thick roll around her waist . |
| 5 | She would not go down for the fireworks . |
| 6 | Pro-Europeans were no happier as he stated that sterling would not go back into the ERM until changes were made . |
| 7 | The answer to that she did not yet know , but she had her own answer already sworn , and she would not go back on it . |
| 8 | What he did decide , and June did not try to dissuade him , was that he would not go back to school . |
| 9 | After all , the money ‘ saved ’ would not go back to the LTA but would have been used to swell the amount available to be paid in appearance money to the two or three ‘ names ’ needed to start the telephones ringing in the box office . |
| 10 | Remember that Labour and Liberal Democrats would not go back to rates — they want people to pay a double income tax — and Labour want a property tax as well . |
| 11 | Now , almost ten years , on farmers there say they would not go back to the days of Government subsidies and control over what can be grown . |
| 12 | Paula said that the man had hanged himself because his wife would not go back to him . |
| 13 | Paula said that the man had hanged himself because his wife would not go back to him . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , despite much wisdom , and many excellent passages , I would not go along with this book in numerous details , nor in its general attitude . |
| 15 | It swiftly became apparent that congress would not go along with such an increase , especially after the big Democratic gains in the 1974 elections . |
| 16 | Wishing to rid the Anglican Church of the influence of Archbishop Laud , he would not go along with more zealous reformers who wished to break away . |
| 17 | She would not give in to these men . |
| 18 | No , she would enjoy this evening , she would let André entertain and amuse her , and she would not give in to useless introspection . |
| 19 | He was being deliberately perverse , but she would not give in to him . |
| 20 | The agreed position of the Government was that we would not move over to private health insurance but would seek to make the health service as effective as possible . |
| 21 | Penny says Diana was adamant that she would not split up with Charles . |
| 22 | Mikkelborg 's composition probably would not stand up without Davis , but then it was not designed to . |
| 23 | Yet the Imperial side of the argument — whatever view may be taken of the fiscal , economic and domestic — would not stand up to examination . |
| 24 | Although so alike physically , she felt sure that Jonna would not stand up to his father 's rage , as George would have done . |
| 25 | But she decided Daniel 's frail body would not stand up to the painful general anaesthetics and blocked the treatment . |
| 26 | The reasons for the brutality and racism which are displayed every day at the ports of entry in Britain and at the British High Commissions in the Indian subcontinent are the laws themselves — laws which are seen as essential to wider government policy and which though blatantly racist ( in fact they would not stand up before the Race Relations Act ) were each introduced as a contribution to good community relations . |
| 27 | There were fears that statements made by Belgian security service officers would not stand up in court . |
| 28 | When Henry V died in Normandy in 1422 mos teutonicus was employed , as it was thought that conventional embalming would not hold out for the journey back to England . |
| 29 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 30 | All his life he had sought her pardon for the failure which she either could not or would not spell out for him . |