Example sentences of "would not [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The lord of Parfois was a law to himself ; if he ever did discover where Master Harry lay buried , the Severn would not stop him from pursuing the dead with his living and virulent hatred , the Welsh border would be no bar to him , even the sanctity of the church would not restrain him . |
2 | Because if he treated her as her father had treated Odette , she knew she would not bear it so patiently , would not bless him on the day he finally left her , as Odette had done , but would go after him with a knife to hunt him down . |
3 | Alan Dysart , the outspoken junior Defence minister , yesterday insisted that attempts on his life would not deter him from denouncing those seeking to overthrow democracy in Northern Ireland … . |
4 | But Kit Everard would not exchange him against either of the women , and indeed , showed little interest in recovering him . |
5 | They were quite convinced that if Jeopardy had not been quite so stunning to look at , most people would not like him at all because he was arrogant and cold . |
6 | The build-up of frustration he had felt since he lost the part would not allow him to be silent . |
7 | At this point in Louis 's reign Nithard comments : " the emperor could now feel confident that the aristocracy would not desert him for the rest of his life " . |
8 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
9 | His computer ranking would not get him into a 42-man field . |
10 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
11 | She would not let him off the hook . |
12 | He had nothing to give Merymose to take to Kenamun , and the priest-administrator would not thank him for information which cast suspicion on two of the most powerful men in the country . |
13 | I would not lose him for every noble we 'll get for him . |
14 | But his wisdom would not help him in this instance . |
15 | Always doing a number about his screen image , about how audiences would not accept him as a thief , how audiences would only accept him as a fallen sinner — someone they could love . ’ |
16 | Norwich manager Mike Walker insisted that Newman 's enforced lay-off would not force him into the transfer market . |
17 | He could not believe what he was hearing , but he knew that the General would not deceive him in these , or any other , circumstances . |
18 | ‘ If Birkenhead stood alone , ’ Baldwin self-righteously pronounced , ‘ I would not touch him with a barge-pole . ’ |
19 | She would not touch him with a bargepole , she said , and never would have done . |
20 | A representative of the newly installed Panamanian government said yesterday that if Panamanian forces found General Noriega they would not extradite him to the US to stand trial . |
21 | But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad . |
22 | In reading this last poem we may glimpse a solution to the problem of Wordsworth 's decline — the Imagination had become a power so terrible that he could not risk indulging it , and yet it would not release him from its grip . |
23 | Here he learnt that the pope would not release him from the archbishopric , but wished him to expound the Latin doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit at a meeting with representatives of the Greek Church at Bari in October . |
24 | While an overwhelming number of Scottish Labour MPs contacted by The Scotsman this week underlined their support for Mr Clarke , some of his original supporters indicated they would not support him in the shadow cabinet elections later this year . |
25 | She would n't tell him about her income , even when he was trying to fill in his tax forms . |
26 | The old lady would n't reach him in that time ; but the assistant saw her swing her right arm forward , the hand clutching a furled umbrella by its ferrule. the crook of the umbrella hooked inside the front of the little boy 's blazer and hooked him like a fish from water out of the path of the skidding car . |
27 | He even holds back when we hear the car pull away , and I would n't blame him for a moment . |
28 | He was out again early ; too early even for the car to have been ticketed yet , as he found when he got in and turned the engine over to be sure that the cold and damp of the early hours would n't leave him with any last-minute problems . |
29 | ‘ No , we would n't leave him in some Beirut jail . |
30 | ‘ I would n't want 'im as a friend of mine . ’ |