Example sentences of "would [not/n't] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would not make a case for Pears to be better than Manchester United 's Peter Schmeichel , but there is no-one more consistent . |
| 2 | ‘ If I was him , I definitely would not make a play for her . |
| 3 | Secondly it had demonstrated that the clergy were well nigh powerless against royal tax demands : if they would not make a grant , the king could outlaw them and raise the money by fines , or he could simply seize their temporalities . |
| 4 | But still — within the house , in open view , Meg might have murdered Rubberneck — they would not make a move . |
| 5 | " You would n't make a profit on Lord Jim anyway " , he added , " I do n't regard her as an investment . |
| 6 | He shoved my shirt in my mouth first , so I would n't make a noise . ’ |
| 7 | She would n't make a wife to any man , or if she did she 'd ruin him . ’ |
| 8 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 9 | I surmised that these were George 's drinking companions , men who would n't make a habit of going to funerals , but there out of friendship , respect for the dead . |
| 10 | Speed and distance from the road edge probably would n't make a lot of difference if a landmine was detonated as they went by , but doing it makes everyone feel better . |
| 11 | ‘ The thing is , there 's so little time in between tournaments and already I spend so little time in Bruhl and in Boca Raton , and it would n't make a lot of sense . |
| 12 | So it 'd be perhaps a little bit bigger than this big one cos the small one would n't make a lot of difference so perhaps it would be that , that big , or something . |
| 13 | The police would go through the motions , but they would n't make a meal of it . |
| 14 | The first row the husband stabbed the wife and she would n't make a complaint about it . |
| 15 | I found this sweet little man who fixed up a non-reflex 35 for me slowed down the motor wind so it would n't make a sound fixed in a timer to take a shot every thirty seconds . |