Example sentences of "would not [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.

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31 would n't give you any marks for that .
32 He felt sure Viola would n't begrudge him that .
33 They would n't do me any good with my Service I grant-you that . ’
34 I 'd be more worried about Tony , cos I do n't think Tony 's as well wise as Paul is , in some ways really for both of them it would n't do them any harm you know because look , they 're , they 're , they 're not typical lads in many ways
35 It would n't do him any harm to take this ungoverned creature for a short jaunt in the fields and the experience would give him a splendid ascendancy over Inspector Burden when he walked into the station at nine-thirty .
36 would n't do him any harm , but it would n't half make him go ah , cos it 's dead minty
37 Playing the Tory game does not work in securing power , and would n't do us any good in the long term even if it did .
38 ‘ Another couple of hours , at least , and it would n't do you any harm to wait a bit . ’
39 I would n't do it that way personally but then
40 A good feed would n't do it any 'arm , ’ the old man growled back .
41 One , Federal Express just decided it would n't do it any more , and other other one Elan , a couple of weeks ago , or last week or whatever it was , decided it could n't afford to do it any more .
42 exactly , it 's the only way you can do it and I would n't do it any other way , because I do n't bel I do n't , I do n't think it 's fair , if I was using the phone continually I 'd get rather annoyed , I mean that I 'd , they 'd have a right to be annoyed , but as I do n't I think it 's ridiculous so I 'm not hardly surprised at all , so I think it 's stupid as you say , but there you go .
43 Well they would n't cover them all but erm I see what you 're getting at .
44 ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’
45 Well the thing is I 'm thinking , you see , the end of the year erm is A G M November , so if we , you know , we are thinking erm , a , you know , getting someone else , er we could tell her that , you know , we would n't need her any more after November and sort of start afresh like that , try and get someone else .
46 Yes , it would n't take him many minutes to chop it down .
47 My daughter was of er grammar school erm tuition but we could n't put her into anywhere here because there were no schools available Loughton would n't take her neither would er , Bishop 's Stortford because they were the only two grammar schools available here and erm my dau , other daughter with many other children er , well all the , children of the residency in Tanys Dell and the Glebelands had to travel to Chingford every day to school .
48 No you would n't save it all would you ?
49 no , no , no , I certainly would n't put it that way erm but certainly in times of war one of the jobs of the press , I think , is to erm keep and eye on the morale of the country and that sort of thing erm
50 I wish you would n't ask him that !
51 I would n't get it all done tonight any way .
52 ‘ But you would n't know them all by sight , ’ I said .
53 No I would n't splash it all out but I 'd get quite a bit cos of the twenty years .
54 So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’
55 ‘ I wish you would n't call me that . ’
56 ‘ I wish you would n't call him that .
57 I goes of course Derek would n't have it any other way .
58 ‘ I would n't have it any other way , ’ he said , holding out his hand to seal the bargain .
59 They know the job is challenging and from time to time frustrating : they probably would n't have it any other way .
60 Christmas may now be more hectic than in most families , but John and Veronica would n't have it any other way .
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