Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure we would not quarrel about payment . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I had a phone call from Mr. Mendelson. ’ — the solicitor — ‘ He asked me if I would agree to accept half of the stock of Mr. Mahmoud on condition that I would not go to court against him . |
| 3 | Susan was so frightened of being alone , that she would not go to sleep , in case we left her . |
| 4 | In the end Harper had sworn a sacred oath on the Holy Mother and on all the bleeding wounds of Christ that he would not go into battle , that he would remember he was a husband and a father , and that if he so much as heard a musket shot he would turn tail and run away . |
| 5 | He would not go into detail on what he called ‘ sensitive issues and sensitive talks ’ but said : ‘ I would be a fool to hinder this by insisting on a cricket tour . ’ |
| 6 | He said last night that the treaty Bill would not go before Parliament until the Danes had sorted out their problems . |
| 7 | She would not think of kissing and being kissed before the white eyes of the Virgin . |
| 8 | But they would not comment on security at the shop . |
| 9 | The giant Eales , the undisputed No 1 line-out specialist in world rugby , will be replaced by the inexperienced Garrick Morgan after finally conceding his shoulder injury would not recover in time . |
| 10 | She could not make out the patch of canary-coloured light on the opposite wall , could not make out why the sun was shining and why her brown-stained hand , on the sheet , would not move for cold . |
| 11 | She would not move until dusk or even darkness ; no need to observe the passage of Tutilo 's supper , she knew now which key she needed . |
| 12 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 13 | At this meeting it was decided by the Committee to approve the Constitution of the European Federation of Funeral Services on behalf of the N.A.F.D. As we hold the Presidency of E.F.E.S. it was decided that we would not vote in favour of any one particular city for the location of the registered office for E.F.F.S. , but would endorse the decision of the majority over this matter . |
| 14 | The speed at which McCarthy gathered support stunned America and had the campuses screaming with delight , especially when , on 31 March , their arch-enemy Lyndon B. Johnson announced he would not stand for re-election . |
| 15 | Whilst the process of jury selection was still under way , Barry made a television address on June 13 in which he announced that he would not stand for re-election for a fourth term in November 1990 , but would serve the remainder of his current four-year term , due to expire on Jan. 2 , 1991 . |
| 16 | He stated that he would not stand for re-election as majority whip in the Senate , nor would he seek re-election to the Senate when his current term expired in 1992 . |
| 17 | An educational Bill of Rights would not stand in place of students ' legal entitlements ; students would , as now , still have the right to pursue a legal claim if they felt themselves to be the victim of an in justice . |
| 18 | He did not talk like this with anyone else , but his father would not laugh at talk of the Holy-Place-From-Over-the-Great-Water or the Yellowlegs Who Has Lost Much . |
| 19 | But the cable operators told the government that they would not invest in cable unless they could have pay-TV as a sweetener . |
| 20 | The move was sharply criticized by environmental experts , who said it would set back research and also meant that NP had reneged on a pledge that work on environmental problems would not suffer under privatization . |
| 21 | In a public statement early in January , the DUC said that its primary task was to ensure the health of the people of Donegal and that their environment would not suffer from uranium mining and related activities . |
| 22 | ‘ I would not want to slave-drive you as early as this actual moment . ’ |
| 23 | Simple , you say , yet how many people force down meals on a diet that they would not dream of choosing if they were not on that diet ? |
| 24 | Growth would not start from scratch , without a legacy . |
| 25 | However , Italian Treasury Minister Guido Carli accepted a compromise assurance that the Institute would cease to exist as soon as the European central bank came into being ( i.e. that it would not remain in existence thereafter as what the Financial Times of Sept. 23 characterized as " a semi-permanent home for " second division " countries outside the EMU " ) . |
| 26 | In addition , he confirmed that the previously scheduled municipal and regional elections would go ahead on Nov. 8 , that elections for a new Congress would be held on Feb. 23 , 1993 , and that he would not remain in office beyond his term of 1995 , as set down in the 1979 Constitution . |
| 27 | With Sycorax on her back , Ariel dropped on to her haunches and took up her baby and tied him in a cloth to her breast ; she rubbed his mouth with soursop juice to keep him dry so that he would not howl with discomfort to be changed ( she packed soft moss against his bottom , just to be sure ) ; then she took a basket of her herbs and preparations and whistled softly to Paca , the last of her caveys , to follow . |
| 28 | A GAMBLER who made a 1,000-to-one bet that Christ would not return to Earth by October is to sue bookie William Hill for not paying up . |
| 29 | But a presidential spokesman , Vyacheslav Kostikov , said the 62-year-old leader would not return to Congress . |
| 30 | The possibility that the report would not appear before Christmas would mean another miserable time for investors . |