Example sentences of "you would [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ye would n't listen to me , would ye ! ’ he rasped . |
| 2 | ‘ Ye would n't listen to good advice . |
| 3 | ‘ Ye would n't know nothing about it ? ’ |
| 4 | Ye would n't believe it , me that reads Playto like a scholar . |
| 5 | ‘ I do wish you would not laugh at me , Isabel . |
| 6 | If you were going to invent a brand new religion you would not start with a cross . |
| 7 | Can I take it from what you said that you would not differentiate between the sectors on this criterion ? |
| 8 | ‘ I wish you would not walk , my dear . |
| 9 | If it were not human you would not want it for research and if it was not human no one would deny you having it for research . ’ |
| 10 | She may fall ill , or have an accident while you were out , or set the house on fire and herself , so that you would not want to leave her even to go shopping . |
| 11 | You would not want that ! |
| 12 | On page 12 Whit Deschner explains why you would not want to go to this prime honeypot river . |
| 13 | If you are soloing over a straight minor seventh you would not want to resolve a melodic line onto the minor sixth interval , although this would be okay on a m7£5 . |
| 14 | As the skin is meant to be a barrier , you would not want any cleansing product to penetrate too deeply — nor do they . |
| 15 | Now , you would not want such a thing bandied about , would you ? ’ |
| 16 | If they are you would not want to raise output above its natural level because there has been no rise in your relative price . |
| 17 | What are you thinking that you would not want anyone else in the town to hear ? |
| 18 | Enter Rita , a young , timid , nervous , woman in clinging red dress , lipstick to match and a pair of shoes in which you would not want to run for a bus . |
| 19 | ‘ You know , Alice , you would not make a very good actress , ’ he said softly . |
| 20 | After a pause , Deems said , ‘ I take it that you would not ban performances of Forgotten Robe , Abyss , Glitter ? ’ |
| 21 | Two years of misery , querida , because you would not tell me yourself . |
| 22 | You would not dream of not bathing , washing your face , or washing your hair . |
| 23 | You would not think her unduly burdened with worries , if you watched her crossing the campus , smiling at people she knows , her eyes bright , her brow unfurrowed . |
| 24 | You would not think a broken shoe . |
| 25 | You would not think so from January 's media furore on British Telecom 's new identity . |
| 26 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 27 | You would not think from the way Lavinia lived that there was anything at all ! ’ |
| 28 | Of course you would not stock these all at once ! |
| 29 | Whatever pains it cost , conquer their stubbornness ; break the will , if you would not damn the child . |
| 30 | ‘ Break the will , if you would not damn the child ’ — and damnation was a very present and real risk , in an age when most families would have lost at least one infant and often several . |