Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mm he 'd not put it on the drive this time |
| 2 | If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object . |
| 3 | The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top . |
| 4 | ‘ I said the money would not change me as a person and it has n't , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Because if he treated her as her father had treated Odette , she knew she would not bear it so patiently , would not bless him on the day he finally left her , as Odette had done , but would go after him with a knife to hunt him down . |
| 6 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 7 | ‘ But I made a decision that I would not do it beyond the age of 35 , and then I would return to try to make a contribution . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
| 9 | We would not leave it to the discretion of the doctors but , acting on the best medical advice , set down what drugs could be prescribed and those that could not . |
| 10 | But this text clearly belongs to the period after Alexander , though I would not commit myself to a Maccabean date . |
| 11 | Why should rebels who would not commit themselves to the support of the state enjoy its fruits ? |
| 12 | Acheson would not commit himself on the sums of money involved and indicated that estimates had to be finalised . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She would not lower herself to the level he clearly thought suited her . |
| 15 | And since they certainly would not pay her for the work she had already done on the trousseau , where else could she go ? |
| 16 | They might be , predictably , so unpopular that Parliament would not pass them in the first place . |
| 17 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
| 18 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 19 | Two-thirds of a total of 324 companies interviewed said that the environment was not a trading issue last year , and 59 per cent agreed that it would not become one in the forthcoming year . |
| 20 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 21 | It was not seen , either , and a story was founded that Ayling would not allow it in the house . |
| 22 | At this point in Louis 's reign Nithard comments : " the emperor could now feel confident that the aristocracy would not desert him for the rest of his life " . |
| 23 | Byron would not have me in the larger house , claiming that the dogs would never tolerate my presence without howling all night . |
| 24 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
| 25 | He would not find anyone among the people celebrating those events who was in favour of the legislation except his own Parliamentary Private Secretary who was also present , but that is to be expected . |
| 26 | His computer ranking would not get him into a 42-man field . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's got plenty of pace — but I 'll bet you £1,000 he would not get anything like the same results as Waqar and Wasim . |
| 28 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 29 | She would not let him off the hook . |
| 30 | He would not let me off the hook until I had confessed that I could no longer work with my boss . |