Example sentences of "it would n't [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And he hoped it would n't inhibit the activities of anybody here .
2 Maybe people later put ice in the tunnels , so it would n't melt . ’
3 Patiently I told him what was in the envelope , bending it to and fro to show that it would n't explode .
4 It would n't wake a mouse .
5 He says that the police could back off a bit , then maybe it would n't end in death .
6 And because there is n't enough room for a half shutter you see , it 's only that wide , it would n't cover the window .
7 ‘ On the whole it would n't affect us too much , ’ thinks John Murray-Browne , proprietor of the Angel Bookshop in Islington .
8 My colleague , Guy Thomas was told he could have another post within the set-up and that it would n't affect his salary .
9 And , because you 'd made a loss , you could , out of your taxed pension , introduce a couple of hundred pounds into the business as a capital in introduction , to keep the business running , and it would n't affect the profit figures at all .
10 She was pleased that Faye drank it that way , since without food value it would n't affect her blood sugar level or insulin intake and therefore did n't have to be regulated in quantity and timing .
11 This was usually negotiating better discounts , in some of our production centres reducing the web width , which of course saves newsprint and in many areas er , in the regional newspapers reducing the distribution of our freeze in areas where we thought it er , it would n't affect , it would n't have affected the performance of the title .
12 See it would n't affect some people but
13 We had a 100% retention on the mortgage until the major work was done , and meanwhile were managing on a bridging loan — it was a bit like living in a house with no roof , hoping that it would n't rain ( which we more or less were doing ) .
14 The air did n't feel sharply cold enough for snow , and Clare hoped it would n't rain ; she peered upward at the dull , grey sky .
15 ‘ I prayed last night it would n't rain .
16 If your home got hit by a tornado it would n't recover quickly either .
17 ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors .
18 It would n't stop hitting me .
19 Just which ‘ caves ’ and why ( it would n't stop the partying which takes place on the embankments ) is anyone 's guess at the time of writing .
20 When the pain came , it would n't stop .
21 This had been a cruel blow , but it would n't stop her from ensuring that justice was done .
22 They slowed it to a steady well , but it would n't stop , and through it all there was the awful screaming .
23 My Lords , M My Lords er th the er I think it might be helpful if I were to make a an intervention at this moment , it would n't stop my Noble Friends er from making it er er an intervention later , later on .
24 Although that might be a bit like confronting a tiger and hoping it would n't bite .
25 Mr Grover had pointed it out and said it would n't give any trouble .
26 I do n't like him at all , and if he was going to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright , I could n't care less , and it would n't change my opinion of him as a man , which is that he 's — ’
27 So I waited four days , watching the weather , praying that it would n't change and when the night arrived to fish again , and the conditions were identical to that wonderful night four moons ago , I felt like I was eight years old again on Christmas eve .
28 it would n't set so I hit it and you know buttons ?
29 Tonally there 's a lot more bottom end than I was expecting , and while it would n't pass for the finest of Martins , it 's good enough to fit into any acoustic line-up and would certainly be bright enough to handle picking and single line solos .
30 ‘ Sort of , but it would n't create the right impression . ’
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