Example sentences of "would [not/n't] make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His personal religious feelings would not make him doubt Ramsey , for he owed something in his private religion to that tradition of the Oxford Movement which Ramsey represented . |
| 2 | He hoped she had made up her mind to talk and would not make him lose valuable time persuading her . |
| 3 | Priestley concludes that ‘ twenty Marxian treatises about the proletariat would not make you feel a tenth of the compassion for the dispossessed urban masses as this bit of pantomime does ’ . |
| 4 | Surely they would n't make them go the whole distance in the dark ? |
| 5 | but when I was eleven years old I did n't look at the sixth form and do jus just because they were doing something I wanted to do it , I might have admired them but if they were smoking that would n't make me want to smoke . |
| 6 | He would n't make me have my birthday party in the rumpus-room with the girls . |
| 7 | So he went back up onto the main road and very little further on , in fact , he in fact found a village and spent the night at the hostelry and he said to the man in the hostelry you know , he that he 'd been lost and that a a little bit back on the road he 'd seen this big house all alight and he had erm , you know , gone in the drive and tried to get get a room there but could n't make anybody hear and the erm the inn keeper said , no he said er you would n't make anyone hear there , he said and if you go back there tomorrow the house wo n't be there ! |
| 8 | ‘ It would n't make it taste better if I owned it . ’ |