Example sentences of "would not [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 2 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 3 | He wanted them to gather last Friday and be absented from their weekend round of Championship matches , but even Albert Ferrasse , the autocratic French Federation president , would not stand for that . |
| 4 | And he , Alexander Augustus Hope , Colonel , at your service , gentlemen , would not stand for another coarse word in her presence , DID THEY HEAR ? |
| 5 | Americans " would not stand for this much longer . |
| 6 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
| 7 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 8 | All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget . |
| 9 | She would not ask for any further exchange of nuclear information , but she must be released from her obligation not to use the knowledge she already possessed in seeking collaboration with other partners . |
| 10 | She would not jump for any of the others , not even Nutty . |
| 11 | The foreman of the drilling crew said they would not work for any company that is in dispute with the local people . |
| 12 | she would not fight for any more . |
| 13 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 14 | And I think what we should have is a fifth person which is an outstanding sales award or something like that which covers all regions cos in Europe you woul you would n't vote for any of them would you ? |
| 15 | It would n't hurt for some of them throwing away but none the right size of course . |
| 16 | And if we were able to make a budget erm , without the constraints of the S S A and so on , we would not , erm you know , and without the cuts of business rates as Mr said , there would n't need for any pain anyway . |
| 17 | Clearly the tiny outpost was awaiting demolition , but maybe that would n't come for many years . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe you really have lost your memory or you 'd know I would n't fall for that . |
| 19 | And who would n't die for such a dilemma ? |