Example sentences of "would n't [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you know that would n't matter to me ; if I had any ideas about Pete , he could be the stoker on that tramp . |
| 2 | And then he suddenly said , in a more natural tone , in an everyday tone that she rarely heard from him these days , ‘ And anyway , I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 3 | Patiently , he repeated , as though perhaps she had not heard : ‘ I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 4 | Er , it would n't matter to the leather trade as such or to any of the countries , er if there was no saddling and harness trade , and that goes for countries like erm , Britain and France and Germany and United States and so on . |
| 5 | It really would n't matter to her , one way or the other . |
| 6 | It would n't matter to me who was manager of Everton at the moment , they would still be toiling to turn things around . |
| 7 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 8 | Claire would n't speak to me . |
| 9 | The landlady looked at her with suspicion as she backed into her room and she resolved again that as long as she stayed in London she would n't speak to anyone . |
| 10 | ‘ She would n't speak to me last time I was in your home , ’ she complained . |
| 11 | We made the cut , but he was so bad-tempered he would n't speak to me , and sometimes I just did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 12 | Here was a woman who would go down on me in her husband 's presence , but would n't touch me , would n't speak to me , would n't see me , unless he was there . |
| 13 | She was unusually secretive about the whole thing and had intricate conversations with God-knows-who on the phone , and certainly would n't speak to Dad and me about what she was doing . |
| 14 | She would n't speak to him and was out of the door in an instant . |
| 15 | Victor had no intention of telling the boss-man his wife would n't speak to him . |
| 16 | I would n't speak to him all the evening , or look at the things he 'd bought , even though I could see one of them was a picture-frame . |
| 17 | ‘ He would n't speak to you , Gilbert , ’ continued Rohmer , still staring at the shattered window as if willing the lightning to return . |
| 18 | I went , but my friend would n't speak to me , let alone come out to keep me company . |
| 19 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 20 | Perhaps he would n't speak to me again . |
| 21 | So did her parents , her father announcing that should she work for Oz he would n't speak to her any more . |
| 22 | It was quite simple really — she would n't speak to him . |
| 23 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 24 | He come up the hospital , I was up in intensive care unit and me dad came round about half past ten at night and in he walked , he came straight down from Filey to see him , cos he used to think a lot of dad you see and dad did him years ago , he used to say he was more of a son than me own but then he brought her to the funeral , they would n't speak to me , would n't entertain me at all , I nearly fainted when I saw little one , she 's tall and thin |
| 25 | Gary brought him up the hospital to meet me he would n't speak to any of the nurses |
| 26 | They were wary and would n't stay to be photographed . |
| 27 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |
| 28 | She had nothing at all to go on , I thought , except that phone call , and she naturally would n't admit to having listened to that . |
| 29 | THIS fractured and desolate album is often unbearably intense , and you sincerely would n't want to be in its author 's shoes . |
| 30 | I just thought you would n't want to be woken up again . ’ |