Example sentences of "man would not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was ginger brown in colour and so badly fitting that only a blind man would not realise that it was a hairpiece . |
| 2 | In cotton weaving rates in 1808 had fallen so low that weavers were reported to be working upwards of fifteen hours , even to twenty , but as an employer remarked it was an impossible situation to sustain and a man would not choose to work eighteen hours if he could live from the labour of twelve . |
| 3 | ‘ Now a mature man would not do any of these things , ’ he said . |
| 4 | A man would not do it I have noticed . |
| 5 | Even though the crew at the station offered to look after the dog , the man would not accept , and walked away . |
| 6 | In jest or earnest , such a man would not wish to leave this human and more than human mystery unresolved . |
| 7 | The Court said that Savory Milln may have felt some anxiety and even suspicion as to how Mr Ferriday had arranged for the £13.5m to be paid on his behalf , but it was going too far to say that any honest and reasonable man would have inferred that Mr Ferriday had misappropriated Eagle 's money in gross breach of his duty as a director or that any honest and reasonable man would not have applied the money , as Savory Milln did , in discharge of sub-underwriting liabilities until he had been satisfied that the monies were properly paid . |
| 8 | The odds are that the young man would not have laid a finger on her , but what if … ? |
| 9 | For a few precious hours she had savoured the sensation , and had determinedly closed her mind to the thought that only the most hard-hearted man would not have offered comfort in her present condition . |
| 10 | The first of these stages was much the most important , for despite the promulgation of the Nazimov Rescript a betting man would not have laid money , at the end of 1857 , on the proposition that peasants were going to acquire both freedom from manorial jurisdiction and some of the landlords ' property . |
| 11 | ‘ Sunday , August 10 , 1913 : I wish this awful man would not come into our house ’ is a fairly typical entry , transcribed from Albert 's pocket diary . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , some of those who were very close to the man would not get ill despite receiving a very large dose of bugs and some , who were in the most distant part of the bus , would catch it despite receiving a small dose . |