Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we had such highly centralised decision-making it would not matter who won elections or who was Chancellor of the Exchequer , because such issues would be decided elsewhere . |
| 2 | MP Michael Clark would not confirm he had been threatened with the withdrawal of a Government trip to Canada if he did not vote with the Tories . |
| 3 | When it would not light they ran off , leaving the injured boy in a shed near a Leeds shopping centre . |
| 4 | Ruth 's faint hope that he would not remember her died . |
| 5 | She would not say they had become friends , just strong acquaintances . |
| 6 | But I would not say I learned nothing from Vincente . |
| 7 | Bernard would not let her set up Jesus , Mary and Joseph on the mantelpiece even though Christmas was coming . |
| 8 | He portrayed himself as victim of imperialism , as a man who had suffered in the struggle against colonial rule , but who would not let it beat him . |
| 9 | She would not let it beat her . |
| 10 | She then carried on ‘ as normal ’ , even buying dressings for her mother 's legs so her father would not know she had died , Mr Hall said . |
| 11 | Oh yeah I suppose it will be much too early Left home at er today come in , I thought I so I 'd only gone about half a mile down the road filled up my car , paid the money the car would n't start I kept turning nothing was happening and then all of a sudden after a couple of minutes it erm like the way I 've button up my coat ? |
| 12 | ‘ It was Nate himself who had the meetings fixed up , and he would n't want them changed . ’ |
| 13 | Margaret Telford ( Mrs Woolley ) regretted not having returned after the war to complete Greats , but has ‘ had a thoroughly happy life and would n't want it altered ’ . |
| 14 | I 'm listening for clues as to why the fuzz came so fast ; you would n't think they knew where Deptford was . |
| 15 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You would n't think he had done anywhere near as much damage to the knee , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ You would n't think he had done anywhere near as much damage to the knee , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Clara could not count the times she had heard her mother declare that when she died she would be dead , and she would n't care what happened to her body , and for all site cared they could put her out for the dustman to collect sentiments which from the first had filled Clara with a vague alarm and horror , for they were clearly reasonable enough in their own way . |
| 19 | ‘ I would n't imagine he 'd bargained on finding you there either . ’ |
| 20 | At eighteen , because they would n't let him read Polo at Yale , he chucked up any thought of an academic career . |
| 21 | You could let they would n't let anyone put him in . |
| 22 | ‘ I would n't say we had bought things at knock-down prices , ’ he says . |
| 23 | As far as the exceptions to the policy is concerned , we , again I I would n't say we had a strong feeling on this , but on balance I think it that if it is considered that they are needed they would probably be better dealt with in a separate policy . |
| 24 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 25 | I would n't say I enjoyed it , but it went much better than I expected and my audience were very appreciative . |
| 26 | No , I would n't say I did , and I would n't say that 's what I was looking for , particularly , because again I mean it 's a much abused notion that perhaps that class disappears in postwar Britain , I think that 's a political issue that was an attempt to make it look as if class was disappearing , class differences rather , but I think there is a lot of evening out , there 's not the stark differences of the quality of life of furnishings that you would have found say in homes before the war . |
| 27 | Would n't say he had to buy a pair , track bike , he 's make their own up . |
| 28 | well there is that would n't taken him went off to the ch |
| 29 | I 'd be arrested , Volkov would n't know what had happened to me . |
| 30 | ‘ My dear brother must have guessed I 'd come here and tipped them off , but then he would n't know I had these . ’ |