Example sentences of "would not go " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dhanraj began by stating unequivocally that she saw film-making as a tool for socio-political challenge ( she would not go so far as to say change ) and that documentary was best suited to this purpose . |
| 32 | Michael and I were both very nervous , for even at this stage something might arise which could mean that the adoption would not go through . |
| 33 | The mysterious passenger had been slimmer , darker and younger , but beyond that the driver could or would not go . |
| 34 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |
| 35 | The worst problem was to try to explain quarantine regulations to the black-clothed mothers who would not go away from the main gates and wailed bitterly ‘ Oh ! mio bambino ! mio bambino ! ’ till Mr Rideout had to have Dr Hill 's attendance lest he too became a patient . |
| 36 | Only three men would not go with her , Leading Seaman Webster , one other rating and Arthur , also the now Lieutenant Cherry RN ( Yankee ) would not be aboard . |
| 37 | Nevertheless , despite much wisdom , and many excellent passages , I would not go along with this book in numerous details , nor in its general attitude . |
| 38 | Its outcome is not really in doubt , not because it is a put-up job but because the CEGB would not go into such an exercise if it had only a 50–50 chance of success . |
| 39 | Provided one remembered that a poll was simply a snapshot of voting intention at the time it was taken and that national polls should have a sample of at least 1,000 , one would not go far wrong . |
| 40 | I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters . |
| 41 | There are three railway lines nearby with plenty of rabbit warrens — so it would not go hungry . ’ |
| 42 | Phoning the next day quoting my reference number to say the flight would not go ahead due to a change of circumstances , a long delay ensued . |
| 43 | With the vicar 's views on hellfire she was sure she would not go unpunished , that he would feel obliged to deputise for God . |
| 44 | Just a few months ago , only the most rabid anti-royalist thought that the monarchy would not go on and on . |
| 45 | This early in the summer most of the hurricane tracks lay well to the south of the Bahamas , but the islands could still be racked by ship-killing tropical storms and , till I was sure of Wavebreaker 's rigging , I would not go too far from safe harbours . |
| 46 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said again , while the thought came to her , unbidden , horrifying and wicked , yet it would not go away : If the result of this amnio-whatever test is adverse , if there is something wrong with the foetus , then I could have an abortion with a clear conscience . |
| 47 | This remained a most important consideration , but some relaxation of the original prohibition would not go amiss . |
| 48 | We have all become used to matching colours in the home , and perhaps a little colour co-ordination in the garden would not go amiss . |
| 49 | Taylor could risk Platt at Wembley next Wednesday , but the feeling is that doing so would not go down too well with Juventus . |
| 50 | By the time she reached Venice , they had had enough : ‘ they would not go with her for a hundred pound ’ , and left her on her own . |
| 51 | He said last night that the treaty Bill would not go before Parliament until the Danes had sorted out their problems . |
| 52 | Pro-Europeans were no happier as he stated that sterling would not go back into the ERM until changes were made . |
| 53 | He added the Maastricht Treaty would not go before MPs until the Danes decided how to deal with their ‘ No ’ vote . |
| 54 | Due to the pre-UK release — ha ha — of ‘ Your Arsenal ’ , much is forgiven concerning that dreaded disappearance from Australia last year ( He does n't just do it here then — IM ) , but a snappy return trip would not go astray in the hearts of the young distraught fans , please please please … |
| 55 | After all , the money ‘ saved ’ would not go back to the LTA but would have been used to swell the amount available to be paid in appearance money to the two or three ‘ names ’ needed to start the telephones ringing in the box office . |
| 56 | Only because it is assumed that if people understood the system in which they were involved they would not put up with it , and it would not go on . |
| 57 | In the end Harper had sworn a sacred oath on the Holy Mother and on all the bleeding wounds of Christ that he would not go into battle , that he would remember he was a husband and a father , and that if he so much as heard a musket shot he would turn tail and run away . |
| 58 | He went into hospital the day before and was only told on the day of the operation it would not go ahead . |
| 59 | Tommy Allen was married now and it was not unnatural that he should have a conversation with Carrie , but the nagging feeling would not go away . |
| 60 | It swiftly became apparent that congress would not go along with such an increase , especially after the big Democratic gains in the 1974 elections . |