Example sentences of "would n't [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I would n't we would n't to every time , but I mean it can be , it can be just a very brief report on what 's happened , you know , if we want to get through . |
2 | My friend answered that he would n't for the life of him ever tinker with such a volcano : ‘ If I did , ’ he said , ‘ the whole man might fall apart . ’ |
3 | I would n't for the world he should miscarry . ’ |
4 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
5 | And it 's nineteen eighty three so it should be it would n't on the catalogue yet . |
6 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
7 | Days like this , she wished people would drop in for coffee , knowing they would n't after the song and dance she made about needing solitude . |