Example sentences of "she would not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got the impression she 'd not 'ave wanted anyone to know about it . |
| 2 | She 'd not think of that … |
| 3 | ‘ She 'd not lift a finger in this house , she would n't . |
| 4 | He said he 'd hung a papier mâché tray in its place so she 'd not feel the absence of the picture . |
| 5 | Father said she 'd not eat or drink till she gave in ? |
| 6 | A particularly charming smile ensured she 'd not take offence at his words . |
| 7 | She 'd not act so silly again . |
| 8 | But she 'd not beg . |
| 9 | And she 'd not rise and slip out unnoticed ! |
| 10 | If that was the way of it , she 'd not say another word … no , not one ! ’ |
| 11 | And she 'd not deal with them in contemptible , contemptuous secret — Lachlan would never take her back then … |
| 12 | She hopes so too , or she 'd not have written that note though she may not realize it yet . |
| 13 | If the navvies had n't been there to help she 'd not have been found for days . ’ |
| 14 | Her father , David Hammond , aged 25 , allegedly beat Sukina to death in the family home in St Paul 's , Bristol , last December 6 after he became annoyed when she would not spell her name . |
| 15 | The return journey through the town had been uphill most of the way ; her legs were trembling and her breath was coming in short , uneven gasps as the castle gates came into view , but she would not protest . |
| 16 | She was born with severe back problems and spent much of her childhood wearing splints and fearing she would not walk again . |
| 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 | Because if he treated her as her father had treated Odette , she knew she would not bear it so patiently , would not bless him on the day he finally left her , as Odette had done , but would go after him with a knife to hunt him down . |
| 19 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 20 | She was n't sure but she would take no chances and she would not drink with Miss Pennycott . |
| 21 | And anyway , perhaps she would not welcome him back . |
| 22 | Because of this , she would not set a date for the wedding . |
| 23 | I hoped she would not discover that I had told Mr Edgar about her quarrel with Heathcliff . |
| 24 | No , she would not wander off again , she would go post-haste to England and Alain could get on with his intrigues and his high-powered business . |
| 25 | I was sure she would not denounce me . |
| 26 | I knew a family of five devoted daughters — all married — who took it in turns , when their father died , to stay with their widowed mother night and day , on a rota basis , for the years until she died , because they knew that she would not want to leave her own home . |
| 27 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 28 | No , she would not want to change that … only to have it go on , with Tyler wanting her as much as she wanted him . |
| 29 | She would not want to see you again . ’ |
| 30 | Like Angela she would not want a poor doctor , and sooner or later would tire of her play-acting and retire back to that world — he wondered why she had left it , and what she thought that she was doing here in the East End , so far from her family and friends . |