Example sentences of "would n't see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 2 | " Foolishly , I dined with him to make clear that I would n't see him again and that if he persisted with his unwanted attention I would have no choice but to go to you . |
| 3 | From where she was standing , she would n't see him . |
| 4 | You would n't see him . |
| 5 | He had been going to wave , but she would n't see him , not at that distance ; she refused to buy contact lenses , and hated wearing her glasses . |
| 6 | Five minutes later , without giving herself time to think , be disappointed that she probably would n't see him again after today , she ran lightly down the stairs and out through the front door . |
| 7 | I thought we agreed you would n't see him till this was over . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Local paper sent a man round this morning even though Humphrey said he would n't see him . |
| 9 | ‘ She would n't see him before . |
| 10 | ‘ There was n't — is n't ; Beryl would n't see him . ’ |
| 11 | He would come several times in a week and then you would n't see him for ages . ’ |
| 12 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He said he would n't see me again . |
| 15 | I ran off down the hill to our street and went down the back alley-way to Julie 's , so my mum would n't see me . |
| 16 | You would n't see me you 'll hear her ! |
| 17 | I did n't want Mary to go because I thought I would n't see her for a long time , and I ran over to her and pleaded . |
| 18 | They could look out for Lou 's mum all they liked , but they would n't see her . |
| 19 | There was an evening to pass before the midnight flight to London and , despite Tucker 's adamancy that Miss Kennedy would n't see her , she taxied to the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 20 | ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’ |
| 21 | You would n't see them today . |
| 22 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 23 | Obviously all the planets that we see orbiting the sun must be travelling at exactly the right speed to keep them in their orbits , or we would n't see them there because they would n't be there ! |
| 24 | We would n't see it coming , we could n't shoot it down when we did and we could n't even chase the fucking thing home after it had hit us . |
| 25 | Look if you put your boat into the boat-house now , he would n't see it till he got right down here again , and then perhaps- ’ |
| 26 | But Mrs. Thatcher and Company would n't see it like that , it was agreed . |
| 27 | ‘ You would n't see it curving off into another dimension , or anything like that ; it would still look perfectly straight . |
| 28 | ‘ I could wait for dark , bypass the current in the fence , climb over , sneak up to the house , stick a bug on one of the windows and hope they would n't see it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ At the end of each sitting I seemed to produce nothing , so I had to hide it ( the canvas ) and carry it facing me , so all the butlers would n't see it . ’ |
| 30 | I just er put the one loose into er into the top where the judge would n't see it I hoped . |