Example sentences of "she would not [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew a family of five devoted daughters — all married — who took it in turns , when their father died , to stay with their widowed mother night and day , on a rota basis , for the years until she died , because they knew that she would not want to leave her own home . |
| 2 | The conversation is about how to respond to an invitation to " step outside " at a party : the gist of B's turn is that if someone were to ask her to go outside for " fresh air " at a party , she would not want to go outside for fresh air , and would not go . |
| 3 | She would not want to see you again . ’ |
| 4 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 5 | No , she would not want to change that … only to have it go on , with Tyler wanting her as much as she wanted him . |
| 6 | He went behind the pot house along the path he usually took with her , knowing , in a way which twisted him savagely , that she would not bother to keep their secret places private . |
| 7 | And because it is just one in a hundred , that one is going to be different in one way or another , or he or she would not bother to buy . |
| 8 | She would not care to live to such an age . |
| 9 | She had been about to collude with Stan in the face of all her good resolutions , and there would have been yet another indelible stain on her spirit which , she suspected , were it available to her , she would not care to put unwashed in her underwear drawer . |
| 10 | In future , she would not go looking for love , or trying to manufacture it out of other lesser emotions , but she still believed it would find her one day . |
| 11 | And she would not go walking with him again and she would not be alone with him if she could help it and she would freeze him with a look when he tried to talk to her . |
| 12 | She would not stop loving him , just because she was in New York and he was here . |
| 13 | He called her again and again , but she would not stop barking at something he could not see . |
| 14 | She needed continual reassurance , and although she had been told by God himself that all her sins were forgiven and that she would not need to go to purgatory , she confessed and had herself absolved four , five or six times a day . |
| 15 | She told herself that if she did not look up she would not need to see it and after a while this not-looking would become habitual , but in the event she could not prevent her eyes from turning up to the campanile . |
| 16 | She would not need to see her until tonight . |
| 17 | Corr says she would not have reordered the books if they continued to include the word nigger . |
| 18 | Corr says she would not have reordered the books if they continued to include the word nigger . |
| 19 | He 'd called their previous alliance interesting , but she would not have called it that . |
| 20 | Such an exceptional manager , she would not have seen the arrival of her son , Christopher , five years ago , as an interruption to her career . |
| 21 | She would not have moved to save her life . |
| 22 | It was a joke really , because if she was one of the male officers then she would not have given it a second thought . |
| 23 | If he had turned from her and rushed from the room , banging the door after him , she would not have felt half as afraid as when he backed slowly from her , his arm bent and his forefinger wagging at her . |
| 24 | Such was her exhaustion that she would not have cared if her traitorous purpose was emblazoned across her face for him to see . |
| 25 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 26 | She would not have done it if it was to last for more than four days . |
| 27 | She would not have done it , but was disappointed that Urquhart did not make the gesture . |
| 28 | There was nothing he could have asked of her that she would not have done for him . |
| 29 | She hoped the clock would break down so that she would not have to see the bird again ; she did not like it . |
| 30 | The tigress had seen me , or she would not have crossed the pool and hurried for shelter , as her tracks showed she had done . |