Example sentences of "would not [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The caller would not talk to her . |
| 2 | He found Carrie seated by the bedside , but was distressed to find that Anna would not talk to him . |
| 3 | She felt he had some other reason for refusing but ho would not admit to it . |
| 4 | There was the sound of a busy office and she suddenly thought he would not speak to her . |
| 5 | Alain would not speak to her . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish you would not speak to me like that . |
| 7 | When Walter Ash rang her the next day she would not speak to him . |
| 8 | I would not pander to it but she must have something to make her life special . ’ |
| 9 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 10 | She would not return to you because you believed her to be a fallen woman , and nothing she could say would convince you otherwise . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps to keep herself in countenance she opened her notebook although he knew that she would not refer to it . |
| 12 | Those who would not bow to him in life , it says , now go down on their knees to his bones . |
| 13 | He did not hear Lissa calling to him across the haze that separated them , and he would not come to her . |
| 14 | He would not come to me in Paris ; so I went to him . |
| 15 | When confronted on the issue by reporters Bush angrily refused " to take any sleazy questions like that " and stated that he would not respond to it " other than to say it is a lie " . |
| 16 | For a start the enemy might refuse the bait ; conceivably their generals might be so inept that the idea of outflanking would not occur to them . |
| 17 | But if Maisie 's son would not listen to her , he would not listen to David either . |
| 18 | But the fisherman would not listen to her . |
| 19 | She would not agree to her going on her own . |
| 20 | Sometimes she wished Will would not write to her at all , if he would send no messages to Daniel . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher was determined that this would not happen to her . |
| 22 | If the foreigner made that transfer in the past before he became ordinarily resident here the clause would not apply to him because in its opening words it refers to individuals ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom . |