Example sentences of "[verb] he would [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later he said : ‘ People who do n't know him would n't get the same impression at all . ’ |
| 2 | Alice said , " But he would know he would n't have to pay them , would n't he . " |
| 3 | He hoped she would spare some time for him and he promised he would not ask her to act in anything . |
| 4 | Mr Coleman promised he would not push for legislation which would severely restrict abortion in Virginia . |
| 5 | He swerved off the track and into the gravel trap backwards , praying he would n't clout the wall . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ he said , ‘ if I 'd ha' stopped he would n't have shod it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But she knew Adam well enough by now to know he would n't make empty threats . |
| 9 | I was glad to hear Lord Belstead say he would not use internment . |
| 10 | ‘ I never believed he would n't make it . |
| 11 | ‘ I never believed he would n't make it . |
| 12 | I believed he would not agree to a truce . |
| 13 | Simeon longed for the coming of the Christ and believed he would not die until he had seen him . |
| 14 | He added he would not hesitate to prosecute anyone found harassing the whales . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He would also like to see plea bargaining introduced , although he says he would not have accepted a reduced criminal plea . |
| 17 | Michael says it 's ‘ very decent ’ of them ; Nick says he would n't miss it for the world . |
| 18 | He says he would n't like to do it . |
| 19 | He says he would n't have taken the job if it had been in the south . |
| 20 | He says he would n't have liked to have been told an incinerator was being built at the bottom of his garden , but having seen this one , he 'd be reassured . |
| 21 | If the big money stars to pour in , Banderas , who had the chance to view Madonna 's impressive art collection — Frida Kahlo , Diego Rivera , Picasso — when he visited her Hollywood home , says he would n't mind hanging a Picasso of his own . |
| 22 | Campese , definitely unlike Best , says he would n't know how to chat up a girl , though Best did n't have to do much chatting . |
| 23 | From the door Shelley shouted , ‘ I thought we 'd decided he would n't agree to meet me ! ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Edwards denies this is the case , but in the September issue of Climber and Hill Walker , Mark Edwards was reported as having said he would not report any of his new routes ( or indeed whole areas of development ) until they received a second ascent . |
| 28 | And Len had witnessed his reaction and this had prompted Len to do what he had said he would n't do again , and that was to try and persuade him to accompany him home . |
| 29 | As is usual in such cases the myth seems to be somewhat remote from the historical facts but , for what it is worth , Wilberforce is supposed to have remarked that : " Whatever certain people might believe he would not look at the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens as connected with his ancestors ' , to which Huxley replied : " I would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop " , which has merits as repartee but is hardly a contribution to science . |
| 30 | Ruud Gullit flew back to Milan from Amsterdam yesterday to resume light training after a Brussels specialist confirmed he would not need further surgery on a nagging knee injury . |