Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 31 | She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter . |
| 32 | ‘ But your gown would not fit me , ’ said Joan — a mite tactlessly in view of their recent conversation . |
| 33 | PAMELA : Sir , perhaps I should answer you by another question and that would not become me . |
| 34 | I think perhaps you would not like me to discuss your lady friends . ’ |
| 35 | But I would not say I learned nothing from Vincente . |
| 36 | Byron would not have me in the larger house , claiming that the dogs would never tolerate my presence without howling all night . |
| 37 | Mr Beckenham , however , would not have me disturb you on the matter . ’ |
| 38 | In fear and astonishment I hid in the corn , and hoped he would not notice me . |
| 39 | But that little plan was soon put a stop to , for mother would not let me go by myself , and there was nobody to go with me . |
| 40 | Would not let me stay here … |
| 41 | ‘ I have come , ’ I ventured to say , but the mother-in-law briskly discounted me as a person , and would not let me see the doctor . |
| 42 | He would not let me off the hook until I had confessed that I could no longer work with my boss . |
| 43 | PAMELA : [ aside ] Now I begin to know too well why all his hard trials of me and my black apprehensions would not let me hate him . |
| 44 | Martin here would have done as much , but that I was none too secure on my feet , and he would not let me undertake the journey home alone . |
| 45 | ‘ He would not let me tend it properly before , stubborn man that he — ’ |
| 46 | The parents would not let me leave home without them . ’ |
| 47 | In fact a couple of nights later he took me to see Max Miller at Holborn Empire and would not let me pay for anything . |
| 48 | ‘ But my chief at Liverpool CID would not let me take part , because he was away on holiday himself at the time , and required me to stand in for him . |
| 49 | ‘ It would not occur me to drink a low-alcohol beer , ’ says Alison , a 23-year-old sales assistant . |
| 50 | ‘ I have no doubt about that , otherwise you would not annoy me so frequently . ’ |
| 51 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 52 | They said I would become the responsibility of the local county and they would not help me . |
| 53 | To know would not help me . |
| 54 | And mourned me , and would not help me get up . |
| 55 | The medical faculty at Buenos Ayres would not accept me , and I had to work day and night for a year to learn enough science to be enrolled . |
| 56 | I stayed still , hoping desperately that they would not see me , for I knew that if they did they would lose no time in tormenting me and finally killing me . |
| 57 | But I kept away from that side of the coast , so that the people of Blefuscu would not see me . |
| 58 | He would not see me there ; he condescended to see me at my hotel . |
| 59 | Yet , strangely , even as he approached I could tell he would not harm me . |
| 60 | I wondered if she could see into my mind , and I did n't care , for during that one short walk I had come to believe that Lili would not harm me . |