Example sentences of "would n't [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could turn convict , he thought , and live in prison and it would n't matter then about a job or all the things ahead that looks so unpromising . |
| 2 | He would n't stay long in Granard . |
| 3 | She would n't leave early in case she missed anything . |
| 4 | You would n't walk home with him , though he was going your way . |
| 5 | How dared he ? she mourned as she sank down on her bed and gasped for breath , and knew then that Naylor Massingham 's low opinion of her would n't hurt anywhere near as much as it did , had she not just realised that she was desperately in love with him ! |
| 6 | ‘ Some of them around here would n't think twice about dragging you away for no reason . ’ |
| 7 | I would n't think twice about it . |
| 8 | But you would n't think so from the arguments we have . |
| 9 | He was sorry for Eloise , but a rich and attractive widow of forty would n't grieve alone for long . |
| 10 | John said it would n't cost much in petrol as Pat McClusky , an excellent comic , was driving a minibus over with eight of John 's other acts and I could go with them . |
| 11 | I thought Gran and Jake had ruined my childhood , Jake because he was n't like other boys and Gran because to my mind she would n't do enough about him . |
| 12 | British filmmakers could come up with films that would overcome the resistance of American exhibitors to non-Hollywood products , as the $5 million grossed by The Red Shoes suggests , but they would n't do so in sufficient quantities until Rank had developed more sophisticated ideas about how to cajole the right sort of product from his writers , directors and producers . |
| 13 | ‘ Would n't fetch much by the look of it . ’ |
| 14 | But I would n't go outside at the moment . ’ |
| 15 | The extra cash would n't go amiss for the chickenwire fund . |
| 16 | ‘ A few sweeteners would n't go amiss on your acid tongue , ’ she muttered . |
| 17 | ‘ She would n't go away with a stranger , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 18 | They have a wax work of ma Mrs Thatcher up and erm Mis Mr erm Major would n't go there till they erm so that , they 've still got Mrs Thatcher 's one up . |
| 19 | I would n't do it now because I , ever since that , that woman was on the train was stabbed and thrown out , I would n't go alone on holidays now but in those days , well maybe I was a lot , course I was younger then but you never heard of such things |
| 20 | Looking at the railways I would n't go anywhere near the station though I might oh hang on I mean what does that all mean ? |
| 21 | Surely you would n't go home without your car ? |
| 22 | Even if you were out on your feet , and fell as a dead weight , your arms would n't drop tidily by your sides . |
| 23 | I might have known you would n't run away from opposition . ’ |
| 24 | And it was so that the fairies would n't sail away in the eggshells . |
| 25 | Football meant standing on a muddy pitch hoping the ball would n't come anywhere near me , so that I would n't be forced to tackle some vicious little boy who really cared who won the game . |
| 26 | Yeah er and er I 'll be quite frank with you erm until I start talking to you in your background would n't come anywhere near what we want . |
| 27 | You know they were coming there this week and they would n't come there for three or four weeks or something , thinking with this picket but it was very important to keep that gate , stop everybody from going in there . |
| 28 | The area would never forget and equally would n't take kindly to some pop group dabbling in the tragedy ) . |
| 29 | He would n't take kindly to an outsider coming to interfere and poke about . |
| 30 | But she would n't get away with it . |