Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'd not lift a finger in this house , she would n't . |
| 2 | Normally you 'd not expect a problem in those circumstances . |
| 3 | Though I 'd not advocate a lifestyle where |
| 4 | Various factions are at work , each seeking to promote its own interests — I 'd not give a fig for the young king 's life if he fell in with one of them ! |
| 5 | I 'd not have a child at my age . |
| 6 | He 'd sometimes talk to the spectators and very occasionally his partners , but otherwise he 'd not say a lot . |
| 7 | There is an enormous network to feed in ideas making it perfectly possible and it would not cost a lot . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I am sure putting up lights would not cost a lot and it would give us peace of mind . ’ |
| 9 | If the answer was in the negative , Mr Bonar Law would not form a Government , but Mr Lloyd George would endeavour to do so . |
| 10 | ‘ I would not make a case for Pears to be better than Manchester United 's Peter Schmeichel , but there is no-one more consistent . |
| 11 | ‘ If I was him , I definitely would not make a play for her . |
| 12 | Secondly it had demonstrated that the clergy were well nigh powerless against royal tax demands : if they would not make a grant , the king could outlaw them and raise the money by fines , or he could simply seize their temporalities . |
| 13 | But still — within the house , in open view , Meg might have murdered Rubberneck — they would not make a move . |
| 14 | He said that one would not expect a person found guilty of treating their own child cruelly to be allowed their liberty at once . |
| 15 | Officials in Brussels claimed Mr MacSharry 's scope for bargaining was undermined by warnings from M Delors that he would not sanction a deal which penalised Europe 's farmers . |
| 16 | It said it may discuss such transactions , which would not involve a change in control , with the management . |
| 17 | Because of this , she would not set a date for the wedding . |
| 18 | The question is one of degree and not of kind , for , were Christianity not to some extent shaped by those cultures in which it existed , it would not speak a language understood by the majority of those whom it addressed . |
| 19 | April 30 : visit by Prime Minister Popov to NATO headquarters and statement that Bulgaria would not sign a security treaty with the Soviet Union which that precluded it from joining other alliances . |
| 20 | Even on the gallows such men would not bite a poison pellet . ’ |
| 21 | He said that there were two situations in which the court would not enforce a clause : ( a ) if at the time of making the contract it is seen that it may in the future operate unfairly or unreasonably ; or ( b ) if after the time of making the contract it is found to operate unreasonably or unfairly even if those circumstances were not envisaged beforehand . |
| 22 | She was still tingling with pleasure and her cheeks burned when she realised that if he came back he could just take up where he had left off and she would not do a thing to stop him . |
| 23 | For example , if we were to enforce so-called free-range systems for laying hens that increased the incidence of death , infectious disease , aggression , pain and fear , it might make us feel fairly good , but it would not do a lot of good for the hens . |
| 24 | Diesel park West sent us incredible demo tapes , but I would not do a deal without seeing them perform live. , |
| 25 | ‘ No doubt because the abbot would not accuse a man until a witness gives proof positive of the felon 's guilt . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , most clinicians would not view a mother with impaired glucose tolerance in pregnancy with the same sangfroid as epidemiologists , who view the data from afar . |
| 27 | Although this might discourage rabbits and deer — even the occasional burrowing lizard or jumping kangaroo — it would not prevent a bird from alighting on the road . |
| 28 | In any case it would not affect a buyer who deals as a consumer ( definition at paragraph 10–17 below ) . |
| 29 | I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before . |
| 30 | She would not wear a wedding ring . |