Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father said she 'd not eat or drink till she gave in ? |
| 2 | And she 'd not rise and slip out unnoticed ! |
| 3 | She found another door that would not open and knocked loudly on it . |
| 4 | Even knowing he was finished she would not stop but pulled herself against him , levered and bucked with a grunting intensity which made him look down on her with pity . |
| 5 | She told herself she would not be shy , she would not blush when addressed as la petite Anglaise , she would not mind having her fluency admiringly remarked upon , she would not care that everyone in the shop would turn round and stare at her , the foreigner . |
| 6 | The reason I would not go and live there for six days , let alone six months , was segregation . |
| 7 | Certainly , they would not go and beg from wealthy relatives ! |
| 8 | Sycorax would not reply except to rasp her curses . |
| 9 | Mr. McAvoy : If any bid included a reduction of employees ' pension rights , may we have a firm commitment from the Minister that the Government would not give that bid the go-ahead ? |
| 10 | He had been driven to distraction when the five-month-old girl would not settle and struck her , causing extensive bruising , the Court of Session heard . |
| 11 | Even in the deep trance state , no patient will do or say anything which he would not do or say when fully aware and awake . |
| 12 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |
| 13 | On May 17th it said that it would not decide whether to hear an appeal challenging California 's ‘ unitary tax ’ on multinational companies until the administration had made clear its views on the matter . |
| 14 | Although the period of protection for copyright may be extended to a uniform period , the extension of the term would not renew or re-establish copyright in any works where copyright may have expired . |
| 15 | She knew she would not cheat and take that option , and she could think of no other . |
| 16 | A spokesman for the British Army of the Rhine would not confirm or deny whether the documents were genuine , saying yesterday : ‘ We do not comment about these matters . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She was in a coma in North Staffordsire hospital for a week and we were told that she would not walk or talk again . |
| 18 | Part of him was coldly aware of the bulge in Doyle 's pocket — the gun which had made sure he would not scream and beg for help . |
| 19 | If a mass of hot and a mass of cold gas were brought together , then it was very highly improbable that they would not mix and give a uniformly warm mixture ; but there was a small probability , and Maxwell imagined a demon who might assist the process , that the warm gas might separate out into a hot and a cold portion , in defiance of the Second Law . |
| 20 | The dishonest accused is doing something authorised when he removes goods from the shelves ; yet surely if the owner knew , he would not allow or authorise the accused to take anything . |
| 21 | I was determined that I would not weep or make the parting harder for him , and I managed to say goodbye taut and dry-eyed . |
| 22 | Even the proposers from the Trust would not come and talk to the public . |
| 23 | The introduction of Bosnia-Hercegovina 's currency would not proceed as planned on July 1 , it was announced on June 30 . |
| 24 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 25 | He would not play and let either his teammates or himself down . |
| 26 | It is just as likely that the market , left to itself , would not finance or build nuclear-power stations , not because of the greens but because of their poor rate of return . |
| 27 | BB : I would not agree and deny that the IMF imposes conditions . |
| 28 | Since the DFR was not a document of title , but merely a receipt and notice of shipment it did little to assure the consignee or bona fide purchaser of the goods that the shipper would not resell or reroute the goods in transit . |
| 29 | " Were it not for what they receive out of the tax … they would not knit or spin for so small wages , as they receive for that work , because they would starve by it . " |
| 30 | He might have to sacrifice somewhat of pay for this end but he would not mind that owing to the chance of rising in the Imperial Service . ’ |