Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The caller would not talk to her . |
| 2 | He found Carrie seated by the bedside , but was distressed to find that Anna would not talk to him . |
| 3 | She felt he had some other reason for refusing but ho would not admit to it . |
| 4 | Mr Wildish said the tests Nicola was undergoing were ‘ routine and nothing we would not give to anyone else in similar circumstances ’ . |
| 5 | There was the sound of a busy office and she suddenly thought he would not speak to her . |
| 6 | Alain would not speak to her . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish you would not speak to me like that . |
| 8 | When Walter Ash rang her the next day she would not speak to him . |
| 9 | I would not pander to it but she must have something to make her life special . ’ |
| 10 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 11 | For it would encourage a reliance on schematic knowledge and a corresponding avoidance of an engagement with the systemic features of the foreign language , or at best a tactical use of them which would not lead to their internalization as a more general strategic resource . |
| 12 | Speaking on July 2 , Miyazawa confessed that he was " very , very embarrassed " at the size of his country 's surplus — which totalled $43,000 million in 1991 — but expressed confidence that it would not return to its 1987 high-point of $60,000 million . |
| 13 | She would not return to you because you believed her to be a fallen woman , and nothing she could say would convince you otherwise . ’ |
| 14 | I think I already knew then that I would not return to my job at the Polytechnic , for the security of that monthly cheque had lost all meaning . |
| 15 | Perhaps to keep herself in countenance she opened her notebook although he knew that she would not refer to it . |
| 16 | She would not yield to his curiosity . |
| 17 | Those who would not bow to him in life , it says , now go down on their knees to his bones . |
| 18 | He did not hear Lissa calling to him across the haze that separated them , and he would not come to her . |
| 19 | He would not come to me in Paris ; so I went to him . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not true , ’ Davide began , but words would not come to his help . |
| 21 | It was to be the stumbling block ; for if the Emperor abandoned the Clauses he would antagonize Britain , while so long as they remained , Russia would not respond to his requests for an alliance . |
| 22 | When confronted on the issue by reporters Bush angrily refused " to take any sleazy questions like that " and stated that he would not respond to it " other than to say it is a lie " . |
| 23 | Such a model of the universe would not correspond to what we see . |
| 24 | For a start the enemy might refuse the bait ; conceivably their generals might be so inept that the idea of outflanking would not occur to them . |
| 25 | He would not listen to her instructions and caused a lot of damage by climbing on furniture and shelves , banging things with his toys , knocking down displays in shops , and so on . |
| 26 | But if Maisie 's son would not listen to her , he would not listen to David either . |
| 27 | But the fisherman would not listen to her . |
| 28 | So it would be lenders who would gain from credit insurance ( and , in particular , from an efficient low-cost insurance scheme which would not seem to their customers to innate their credit payments unduly ) . |
| 29 | She would not agree to her going on her own . |
| 30 | " I can only treat Dr Dunstaple as I would treat any of my patients and I fear that your father would not agree to my methods . |