Example sentences of "would [not/n't] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have taken Fergusson the teacher , while he was nailing up the lists , and stripped him and tarred him — ‘ Donald — you would not do that ! |
| 2 | I believe he came to see it would not do . |
| 3 | ( Notice the change which the Durham professorship , and Joan 's coming , wrought — in 1940 no one could conceive of this absent-minded man as a bishop , and six or seven years later the electors to the see of Edinburgh mulled over his name and decided that it would not do , and five years after that both archbishops and the prime minister 's office were agreed that he would be a very good bishop . ) |
| 4 | Diesel park West sent us incredible demo tapes , but I would not do a deal without seeing them perform live. , |
| 5 | It would not do for it to take place in Moran 's house and Moran would not go to a hotel . |
| 6 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 7 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 8 | It was clear that Chancery was doing work which the Common Law Courts could not or would not do , and without which men 's rights could not be sufficiently protected . |
| 9 | Viola would have to give up her career , of course — otherwise she would be coming home the same time as Gina , which would not do at all . |
| 10 | At least Doyle would not do that . |
| 11 | It would not do … |
| 12 | I would not do it again ; it is too dangerous as things are today ; but the night on which I decided this to be the case was the night on which I leaned enough at my classes to decide me about Bertrand Russell , so it was well worth going . |
| 13 | For the new generation , providence meant looking ahead in this progressive sense ; those who would not do so were classed as improvident . |
| 14 | She would not do very well on any test of strength , stamina , or suppleness . |
| 15 | ‘ I wish you would not do it , ’ said Isabel Lavender , descending the stairs . |
| 16 | It would not do to have Miss Blagden imagine she bore any grudge . |
| 17 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 18 | But it would not do you justice , or me justice , to say it was just that . ’ |
| 19 | If they were starting again , the engineers would not do FM this way . |
| 20 | The emotional response in a game , play and in drama is a response to an abstraction , to a ‘ bracketing-off ’ from living , and it can be just as intense — possibly even more intense for , knowing it is a second-order experience , one can ‘ release ’ one 's grieving , for example , in a way one would not do in the actual event . |
| 21 | Many of the rooms he found would not do . |
| 22 | It would not do , the objection continues , to say that the legitimate power of every authority is limited , and that one of the limitations is that it may not err much . |
| 23 | It would not do you any credit to stay on in Munich without an appointment . |
| 24 | However , it would not do to dawdle . |
| 25 | For example , if we were to enforce so-called free-range systems for laying hens that increased the incidence of death , infectious disease , aggression , pain and fear , it might make us feel fairly good , but it would not do a lot of good for the hens . |
| 26 | Neither effect is large , but the result is sufficiently different for us to feel uncomfortable about averaging the two effects ; it would not do justice to the situation to say that on average there was no effect of education once age was controlled . |
| 27 | Alternately , this interest might demonstrate the excitement and enjoyment gained from reading about and watching that which we ourselves could not or would not do ; a sort of substituted excitement . |
| 28 | ‘ Now a mature man would not do any of these things , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar . |
| 30 | At the time I had few qualms and found the role-playing exciting ; today I feel I was condescending to the people I deceived and I would not do it again . |