Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] would not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time it was worth five shillings , no mean sum for a Gorbals kid , but had this promise been honoured I would not have parted with the note . |
| 2 | It was pleasant but had I been blindfolded I would not have been able to tell the difference from its cheaper , non-organic counterpart . |
| 3 | ‘ So take the box back with you , ’ she said gently , ‘ and say I would not dream of accepting anything , because of course they are family things . |
| 4 | Now , almost ten years , on farmers there say they would not go back to the days of Government subsidies and control over what can be grown . |
| 5 | He hoped she would spare some time for him and he promised he would not ask her to act in anything . |
| 6 | Mr Coleman promised he would not push for legislation which would severely restrict abortion in Virginia . |
| 7 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 8 | Olympic champion Christie , who was flying home to Britain yesterday after an eight-week training stint in Australia , has consistently protested he would not put his new-found sprint supremacy on the line over 60m at the world indoor championships . |
| 9 | So agriculture will have to play a role in that and therefore we want to increase agricultural output and in order to do that you want to protect the middle and rich peasants who are the most efficient producers , or I E managerial farms if , if they are more efficient , you want to , if you want it would not make sense to take land away from rich peasants in order to give to poor peasants when rich peasants might be more efficient producers . |
| 10 | I was glad to hear Lord Belstead say he would not use internment . |
| 11 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 12 | Corr says she would not have reordered the books if they continued to include the word nigger . |
| 13 | Corr says she would not have reordered the books if they continued to include the word nigger . |
| 14 | Cllr Eddie McEvilly , Labour , said : ‘ It is really quite disgraceful for chief officers to show our hand like this and reveal we would not have a strong case . ’ |
| 15 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 16 | The majority of drivers — by Niki 's account , or a minority , if you believe James Hunt — had already decided they would not race in the appalling conditions at the Fuji track . |
| 17 | Another , compiled in June , stated that no one believed any longer in an early end to the war in Russia , and that soldiers on leave had said they would not go through a second winter there . |
| 18 | Shares in Bond group companies were suspended on the Stock Exchange after the receivership decision but the group said other lenders had said they would not take immediate action . |
| 19 | The ANC had a court permit for the rally — but Ciskei ruler Brigadier Oupa Gqozo had said they would not enter his territory in eastern Cape province . |
| 20 | I believed he would not agree to a truce . |
| 21 | Simeon longed for the coming of the Christ and believed he would not die until he had seen him . |
| 22 | He added he would not hesitate to prosecute anyone found harassing the whales . |
| 23 | Although the river is only one to two feet deep G. says he would not walk across because the current is too strong and bottom too slippery . |
| 24 | He would also like to see plea bargaining introduced , although he says he would not have accepted a reduced criminal plea . |
| 25 | And yet again he let the silence come , as if the silence would answer my questions better than he could himself ; but just when I had decided he would not answer , he spoke . |
| 26 | Last week the Soviet embassy in East Berlin even signalled it would not intervene if unrest became uncontrollable . |
| 27 | I you have not said it would not meet the Department of Transports criteria for financial support for example . |
| 28 | The Scottish Office has said it would not allow schools with low rolls to opt out , but the parents claim they have enough schools ready to join in a rolling campaign of ballots which would delay closures by two years . |
| 29 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 30 | I told him , although it was not true , that the local carabinieri had said he would not remain locked up there for long , but I am sure he did not believe me . |